From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:05:21 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Q. How to use a custom kernel tree? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130308170521.3e8926ff@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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
/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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com