deb-pkg: Add support for powerpc little endian

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Fri Sep 5 15:28:47 EST 2014


The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le.  This
is the default architecture used by Ubuntu for powerpc.

The below checks the kernel config to see if we are compiling little
endian and sets the Debian arch appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 35d5a58..6f4a1af 100644
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ create_package() {
 	s390*)
 		debarch=s390$(grep -q CONFIG_64BIT=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo x || true) ;;
 	ppc*)
-		debarch=powerpc ;;
+		debarch=$(grep -q CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo ppc64el || echo powerpc) ;;
 	parisc*)
 		debarch=hppa ;;
 	mips*)



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