From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philippe Ney Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:47:29 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] newbie comment/question In-Reply-To: <45BD7FCC.7070801@critical.com> References: <45BD7FCC.7070801@critical.com> Message-ID: <20070129084729.53400382.philippe.ney@pardes.ws> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net > I downloaded BuildRoot according to the documentation, tried to jump > ahead but failed, then went back to the documentation and found that a > default build failed too. The problem was that the latest uclibc > snapshot failed to build. I got over that by falling back to the > uclibc.x.x.1 option instead. (This had worked when I tried to jump > ahead, but my attempt to build for an i486 target then failed on some > sort of missing kernel patch target.) OK, with this i686 build complete > (after falling back to an earlier version of uclibc), I was unable to > find a kernel to load onto my target. I didn't see this problem > documented anywhere. How do I compile (or cross-compile, since my goal > is to use BuildRoot as a cross-platform development tool if possible) a > kernel image under BuildRoot? Is this outside the scope of BuildRoot? > I just came over from OpenEmbedded because their support for uclibc > seems to be deficient, and I didn't see any mention of kernel building > in the BuildRoot docs. Any help would be appreciated. Hello, Sure you can ! In the sources, have a look in target/device And in the configuration view go in "Board Support Options" Philippe