From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:25:04 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] git binary diffs are not supported In-Reply-To: <53C665B1.6050609@posteo.de> References: <53C665B1.6050609@posteo.de> Message-ID: <20140716152504.4bd10dbb@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear J?rg Krause, On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:44:49 +0200, J?rg Krause wrote: > I am trying to apply a git binary patch to add a firmware binary blob to > the linux kernel firmware directory. I am using git format-patch > --binary -M -n -s to create the patch and copy it to the global patch > directory. Trying to build linux fails while patching with the following > error message: > > git binary diffs are not supported. > > Do I missed something? I would be glad for any advice! We don't use git to apply patches when building packages in Buildroot, we use the plain old patch, which indeed doesn't support binary diffs. Not sure how to solve this situation. Does your firmware really needs to be part of the kernel build process? Can't it be loaded from the filesystem at boot time, as is done for all the firmwares in the linux-firmware package? If that was possible, then you would simply have to create a simple Buildroot package that installs your firmware into /lib/firmware/. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com