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Ported Marvell armhf build on amd64 host for debian buster to use cross-comp… #80
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…ilation instead of qemu emulation
Motivation:
Current armhf Sonic build on amd64 host uses qemu emulation. Due to the nature of the emulation it takes a very long time, about 22-24 hours to complete the build. The change I did to improve the building time ports Sonic armhf build on amd64 host for Marvell platform for debian buster to use cross-compilation on arm64 host for armhf target. The overall Sonic armhf building time using cross-compilation is about 6 hours.
The Sonic configure and build for the armhf cross-compilation is as following:
NOJESSIE=1 NOSTRETCH=1 BLDENV=buster CROSS_BLDENV=1 make configure PLATFORM=marvell-armhf PLATFORM_ARCH=armhf
NOJESSIE=1 NOSTRETCH=1 BLDENV=buster CROSS_BLDENV=1 make target/sonic-marvell-armhf.bin
Sonic module should check if $CROSS_BUILD_ENVIRON is 'y' to make sure that it is cross-compilation build.