From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ptmx.org (ptmx.org [178.63.28.110]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7A46F763 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.14.248] (unknown [91.114.0.140]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C98522931 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:48:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <532065C9.30300@pseudoterminal.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:48:57 +0100 From: Carlos Rafael Giani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Using openembedded with externally built kernel X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:49:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a platform with a very barebones BSP that builds and patches a 2.6 kernel using a whole lot of shell scripts and patch files. Integrating this build process into a .bb file is too complicated at the moment. Since cross compiling all packages I need is a nightmare to do manually, I wonder if I can get OE to use the prebuilt kernel along with its kernel modules and headers instead of trying to build a new kernel. Ideally, I would just tell it where the kernel headers are, where the uImage is, and where the modules are. I imagine this as some kind of kernel .bb file setting things up to not actually build anything. My question is: is this possible? All I could find was about external toolchains and external kernel modules. Carlos