[Buildroot] linux: why is vmlinux only available for mips?

Quotient Remainder quotientvremainder at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 16:10:12 UTC 2011


Thomas,

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 15:38 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> >
> >> * I need to be able to compile external kernel modules, so in that
> >> Makefile I need to point to the right kernel directory.
> >
> > Ok. Those could be integrated as Buildroot packages, in which case
> > getting access to the Linux source directory is easy.
> 
> Good point. I'll have to add Mercurial support in buildroot to get there though.

I may be misinterpreting, but does the above mean that you have a decent
generic external kernel module build structure going?  I have a terribly
hacky setup working here but it's completely incompatible with the
recent linux GENTARGETS approach.
Care to share your external module build stuff?




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