[Buildroot] Trying to configure the kernel

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Apr 13 15:32:01 UTC 2013


Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:46:38 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 06/04/13 15:26, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > In short, there is no way to just "start the kernel configuration",
> > you must first give it an initial existing configuration. Maybe we
> > should add an option "Just run the kernel configuration with
> > whatever defaults for the current architecture", so that you don't
> > have to give an existing defconfig or an existing kernel
> > configuration file.
> 
>   I posted a patch to do exactly that a long time ago. Don't have 
> internet access at the moment so can't look up the patchwork
> reference.

I think this is something we should commit, probably as part of a
rework of how linux-menuconfig/barebox-menuconfig and al. work, as per
our discussions at the FOSDEM Buildroot Developers meeting.

Thomas
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