From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Belloni Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:58:00 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Newbie help, AT91sam9x25 patch Installation Questions In-Reply-To: References: <1432452387471-101939.post@n4.nabble.com> <20150524130250.36ebd47d@free-electrons.com> <20150525143810.GB3199@piout.net> Message-ID: <20150527095800.GP3199@piout.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi, On 26/05/2015 at 23:58:17 -0700, Ted Salazar wrote : > To all you patch experts...Just curious why the BuildRoot manual checksout a branch to patch instead a tag? The newest branch is 2013.xx but the newest stable tag is 2015.02, which is what I want. Also, don't I need to add a patch command at the end of those two commands as well? Something like $ patch < hello.patch ? > > 21.3.1. Applying Patches from Patchwork > The main use of Buildroot?s Patchwork website for a developer is for pulling in patches into their local git repository for testing purposes. > > When browsing patches in the patchwork management interface, an mbox link is provided at the top of the page. Copy this link address and run the following commands: > > $ git checkout -b > $ wget -O - | git am > > I hope to get your life saving patches installed tomorrow. > Use: git clone git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot git checkout 2015.02 wget -O - http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/473928/mbox/ | git am wget -O - http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/473935/mbox/ | git am make at91sam9x5ek_defconfig make Those are step by step instructions but like I already said, you should probably read more documentation or get a training. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com