Linux-tools should be available for all kernel flavors.

> It appears that unlike the Ubuntu ARM kernels, the linaro ones do not
> provide the corresponding linux-tools package that contains perf.

Don't we build linux-linaro-tools-* packages?

It would be nice if there was an easier way to the correct thing via
a generic dependency package though.

Cheers
---Dave

I expected a linux-tools-linaro with linaro as a suffix as with the image and headers packages. I'll need to test one that matches my linaro kernel version then.

Can confirm that we're missing the linux-tools package for the TI LT kernel:

Built packages:
kernel-image-3.0.0-1402-linaro-lt-omap-di
linux-headers-3.0.0-1402
linux-headers-3.0.0-1402-linaro-lt-omap
linux-image-3.0.0-1402-linaro-lt-omap

Confirmed the bug with 11.08 RC.

TI LT has tools as of version 3.0.0-1402

The linux-tools package is missing from the STE and Samsung LT kernel packages. For freescale it just need a better naming, as it's currently linux-linaro-tools-3.1.0-1002 (but should be linux-linaro-lt-mx5-tools-3.1.0-1002).

If you need any help enabling the tools package, please ping jcrigby directly at IRC.

For the LT TI kernel package this is not an issue, the package is already properly generated:
linux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402 Linux kernel tools for version 3.1.0-1402

Clean installation of http://releases.linaro.org/images/11.11/oneiric/nano/panda-nano.img.gz:

Welcome to Linaro 11.11 (GNU/Linux 3.1.0-1402-linaro-lt-omap armv7l)
[...]
root@linaro-nano:~# apt-get update
[...]
Fetched 1708 kB in 4s (346 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@linaro-nano:~# uname -a
Linux linaro-nano 3.1.0-1402-linaro-lt-omap #5~oneiric1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 19 05:23:05 UTC 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
root@linaro-nano:~# apt-get install linux-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdw1 libelf1 linux-tools-3.0.0-13 linux-tools-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdw1 libelf1 linux-tools linux-tools-3.0.0-13 linux-tools-common
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 534 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1450 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
[...]
root@linaro-nano:~# perf
perf_3.1.0-1402 not found
You may need to install linux-tools-3.1.0-1402
root@linaro-nano:~# apt-get install linux-tools-3.1.0-1402
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-tools-3.1.0-1402
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-tools-3.1.0-1402'
root@linaro-nano:~#

Ah, I see, the package name is different than the suggested one... Not helpful, really ;-)

root@linaro-nano:~# apt-get install linux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 243 kB of archives.
After this operation, 479 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linaro-maintainers/overlay/ubuntu/ oneiric/main l
inux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402 armel 3.1.0-1402.5~oneiric1 [243 kB]
Fetched 243 kB in 0s (489 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package linux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402.
(Reading database ... 9485 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402 (from .../linux-linaro-lt-omap-t
ools-3.1.0-1402_3.1.0-1402.5~oneiric1_armel.deb) ...
Setting up linux-linaro-lt-omap-tools-3.1.0-1402 (3.1.0-1402.5~oneiric1) ...
root@linaro-nano:~# perf

 usage: perf [--version] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Paweł Moll <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ah, I see, the package name is different than the suggested one... Not
> helpful, really ;-)

Yeah, that's a different issue, can you fill a bug for it?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/900704

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Paweł Moll <email address hidden> wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/900704

Thanks Pawel!

How to fix this bug in landing team packaging...

Apply these two patches:
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jcrigby/linux-lt.git;a=commit;h=25db06de8a2f7d5e74dda28471141cd36450cb3a
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jcrigby/linux-lt.git;a=commit;h=4c0e3b7c14edefe75691eb00eac91b4fc8473f1f

Now building packages will require ARM libraries, for cross-building on an Oneiric PC the following _may_ work (please report success or failure)...

Add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list like this:
 deb [arch=armel] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ oneiric main restricted
Install ARM libraries with:
 sudo xapt -m -a armel binutils-dev libdw-dev
If the libraries don't install, then cross-building the tools package is not possible and you will need to temporarily disable this whenever building packages locally by setting "do_tools=false" in debian.linaro/rules.d/armel.mk

Question, does the tools package need adding to the hardware pack?

To answer my own question "does the tools package need adding to the hardware pack". The answer is no, because the tools package willl be added to the linux-image package as a Suggests package and so will be picked up automatically by hwpack-create and the image tools.

Fixed in freescale landing team, the package is now linux-linaro-lt-mx5-tools-3.1.0-1002_3.1.0-1002.13_armel.deb. Although I'd recommend a more consistent naming like other kernel packages, e.g. linux-tools-{PKGVER}-{ABINUM}-{FLAVOR}, which we could do in next step.