[Buildroot] Buildroot with a custom kernel

[Alex Rades]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Bussmann, Paul
<Paul.Bussmann at technidata.com> wrote:
>> 2) tarball up your custom kernel and place it in the dl dir.  Make
>> sure you name is according to what you have in your buildroot config
>> for the kernel version.  BR will then assume you've already dl'ed the
>> kernel and use your version.
>
> I already tried this with 2.6.17 on ARM. Resulting in everything _looked_
> fine at first but my board instantly rebooted when I tried to use TCP stuff.
> It is indeed related to BR's toolchain, because if I use the manufacture's
> (Ka-Ro) toolchain to compile the kernel, it works.
> So I asked on this mailing list about getting a 2.6.17-supporting Buildroot
> environment (2008-08-25) with the following answer (2008-08-26):
>
>> 2.6.17 was released around Jun 18  2006. I'd ask those people for a
>> vaguely recent kernel.
>
> So I'd be very interested if you have similar success.

I've been the whole day fiddling with makefiles but i can't get it
working.. too intricate.