Re: [ptxdist] Local kernel tree config option

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:21:31PM +0100, jean-philippe francois wrote:
> 2011/11/9 Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:36:27PM +0100, Andre Haupt wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:16:00PM +0100, Andre Haupt wrote:
> >> > I want to use a local kernel tree in my ptxdist project. I followed the
> >> > instructions in the pdf documentation (chapter 6.13). There, a 'Local
> >> > kernel tree' menu entry in the platform config is mentioned.
> >> >
> >> > However, this entry is missing when i do a ptxdist platformconfig ->
> >> > Linux kernel.
> >> > What am i doing wrong here?
> >> >
> >> > Btw, i use the git repository of ptxdist with the 'ptxdist-2011.08.x'
> >> > branch.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Never mind. I just found out that this was removed recently.
> >>
> >> So to apply custom changes to a kernel, i create a folder <kernel.version>
> >> in my-project/patches and put a quilt series with my changes in it,
> >> right?
> >
> > It was replaced with a more generic option. I guess we need to update the
> > docs:
> >
> > $ ln -s /path/to/your/kernel/tree <BSP>/local_src/kernel.<platform-suffix>
> >
> I am sorry, but I can't seem to make it work.
> I am using ptxdist 2011.12.0, and if I do
> ptxdist kernelconfig, it will try to download the kernel.
> 
> I  straced the whole thing :
> strace -f -o kernelconfig.log ptxdist kernelconfig
> 
> To find out why it was not finding my link
> And could not find any occurence of local_src in it.

Please send the output of:

$ ls -l local_src/
$ ptxdist clean kernel
$ ptxdist extract kernel

Michael

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