From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:33:57 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] building fbtft framebuffer drivers into buildroot. In-Reply-To: <20141226145128.GC3982@free.fr> References: <20141226102028.GA3982@free.fr> <20141226150438.08e429c2@free-electrons.com> <20141226145128.GC3982@free.fr> Message-ID: <20141226173357.20986d8c@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 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com