From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:40:53 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] New kernel source mode [Proposal] In-Reply-To: (Steve Calfee's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:23:36 -0800") References: Message-ID: <877gnemb6y.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Calfee writes: Hi, Steve> Hi, I am not opposed to a simple integration of kernel development Steve> into buildroot. Steve> However, the last time I did kernel hacking a few years ago with Steve> buildroot, we just did not build the kernel with BR. The greatly Steve> speeds up a BR build after a clean (If you also use an external Steve> toolchain). Steve> We had the kernel tree in an external git tree where we did standard Steve> cross builds using the same compilers used by the BR. A simple script Steve> to copy uImage and the modules to the nfs filesystem where BR was Steve> extracted made a testable system. I work somewhat similar. I build the kernel by hand while I'm developing on it (working on a driver or whatever), and the same for any custom applications, and only use buildroot as an integration tool once the individual components are more-or-less stable to ensure everything is under version control and can be reproduced. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard