[Buildroot] Q. How to use a custom kernel tree?

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Chris Wilkinson,

On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:47:42 -0500, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> I have a customized, patched kernel tree which I'd like BR to use.
> 
> I tar'd the custom kernel tree, selected custom tarball for the kernel
> version and put the full URL/path to the archive in
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL.

Can you pastebin your .config file somewhere?

> The custom tree also contains a defconfig for my arch. I set
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_DEFCONFIG=y and gave it's name in
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG.
> 
> Using make, BR error'ed out thus.
> 
> >>> linux custom Extracting
> cat /home/chrisw/embedded/buildroot/dl/linux-3.4-ss4000e.tar | tar
> --strip-components=1 -C
> /home/chrisw/embedded/buildroot/output/build/linux-custom  -xf -
> cat: /home/chrisw/embedded/buildroot/dl/linux-3.4-ss4000e.tar: No such file
> or directory
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> It appears that BR expects to find the custom tarball in <BR>/dl, not the
> path I specified.

Hum, let's see your .config first. Once we check that, we'll be able to
tell you if it's a configuration problem  or indeed a Buildroot bug.

Thomas
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