[Buildroot] How do I configure the kernel?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2009-11-23, Nicholas Walton <nwalton@aplopteng.com> wrote:

>> I got a working kernel by
>>
>> ?0) pick the arch, board, target filesystem options, etc.
>> ?1) do a "make" and build everything (including a non-working kernel)
>> ?2) overwrite output/build/linux-2.6.30.2/.config with my old
>> ? ?but "working" config file.
>> ?3) "make ARCH=arm oldconfig" in the ?output/build/linux-2.6.30.2
>> ? ?directory
>>
>> That doesn't feel like the proper way to do it, but it seems to
>> have worked
>
> That does work, but a more direct way would be to do the linux
> configuration through buildroot.
>
> ~/buildroot % make menuconfig
> ~/buildroot % make linux26-menuconfig
> ~/buildroot % cp old-linux.config  output/build/linux-$version/.config
> ~/buildroot % make linux26-$either_config
> ~/buildroot % make

What is $either_config?

> and finally
>
> ~/buildroot % make linux26-update
>
> to copy output/build/linux-$version/.config to
> target/device/$whatever/linux-$version.config, which unlike
> output/ is not .gitignore'd.

OK, thanks.

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