Building kernel for a series of different Intel CPU sub architecture

Registered by Aymeric Mansoux

Every time that we reach a good kernel config and binary that works on all x86, it would be nice to provide binaries for sub archictures, like PIII, pentium-m, etc ... How could we do that effectively and without too much hassle?

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implementing this feature is relatively simple. it involves doing the following steps:

1) sync debian.master & debian with ubuntu kernel git versions
2) cp debian.master/config/$ARCH/config.flavour.generic debian.master/config/$ARCH/config.flavour.$FLAVOUR

...where $FLAVOUR is 'pure' at the moment, but could then become 'pure-core2', 'pure-p3' etc..

3) repeat step 2) for all three architechtures
4) remove all other config.flavour.* for all other arches, as well as the config folders for all un-supported arch'es (sparc, powerpc, etc) as this will save you to go through all their flavour config files during debian.master/rules editconfigs
5) add our flavours to rules.d/$ARCH.mk and remove all other targets (generic, i386, blablabla)
6) add our flavours to the getabi command (need to find out which file exactly) and remove all others
7) done

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