Re: [ptxdist] Local kernel tree config option

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

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:40:20PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2012 13:21:31 jean-philippe francois wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> AFAIK this is still done, although not necessary. Known bug, Robert wrote 
> about it some time ago.
> As you seem to have an own kernel name, I would just touch the file it wants 
> to download in src/ and you should be fine.

Yes of course. The tarball is still needed. This is a development feature.
- Select the base kernel version in platformconfig (this will be downloaded)
- work on the kernel tree in local_src/kernel.<platform>
- export the final patches and remove local_src/kernel.<platform>

For something permanent it _may_ work to overwrite KERNEL_URL:

$ cat rules/post/fixup.make
KERNEL_URL := file://$(PTXDIST_WORKSPACE)/local_src/my-special-kernel
$

But I'm not sure if that really works for the kernel.

Michael

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