From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] Using an external Linux tree References: <4B792E68.6020907@heig-vd.ch> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2010-02-15, Marc Garnier wrote: > *Cliff Holden* Cliff.Holden at Atheros.com: >> I'm somewhat new to buildroot, but have been building kernels >> for a while. I have a general question: >> >> What is the proper procedure for using an external linux >> kernel tree in the build? Our SCC system (source code >> control) is set up to have various kernel versions located in >> a particular location. If I could get buildroot to "point" to >> this external kernel, it would be helpful. >> >> I did try the "advanced" options that allows the specification >> of a kernel version and an external "patch" file, which is >> close, but the custom kernel I have is not set up as a set of >> patches. I would like an option to simply specify the path of >> the kernel source for the build to use. >> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Have you found the solution? I'd like to do that as well. I can modify my "build" script to automagically generate patches against a vanilla source tree each time, but that seems rather obtuse. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are we live or on at tape? visi.com