From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] building fbtft framebuffer drivers into buildroot.
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:33:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141226173357.20986d8c@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141226145128.GC3982@free.fr>
Dear Yann E. MORIN,
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:51:28 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> But the fact is that fbtft is only an additional modules with no impact
> on the core of the kernel; it requires "patching" the kernel just
> because it wants to add a Kconfig option and a Kbuild sub-directory.
>
> So, it would better be built as an out-of-tree module, rather than be
> handled as a kernel extension. Hence the reason I said it would not play
> well "as-is" with Buildroot.
In this case, then yes, indeed, turning it into proper out-of-tree
modules would be nicer.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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2014-12-25 20:09 [Buildroot] building fbtft framebuffer drivers into buildroot thebestofall007 .
2014-12-26 10:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-12-26 14:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-12-26 14:51 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-12-26 16:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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2015-01-15 2:16 ` Lou Crittenden
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