[Buildroot] Help with selecting package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Oct 14 11:47:53 UTC 2013


Dear Marco Trapanese,

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:51:08 +0200, Marco Trapanese wrote:

> How one should get this information by himself?

Experience, mainly.

> I want to learn without always ask to who is more expert.

Well, the problem occurred when building a kernel driver. And the
kernel is completely standalone, it does not depend on userspace, it is
the opposite. So if something is "missing" to build a kernel driver,
this "something" must be in the kernel itself.

> I found my kernel config file in:
> 
> board/arm/rpi/linux.config
> 
> but the header says "do not edit this file". What's the recommended way 
> to change kernel settings?

make linux-menuconfig

See http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#kernel-custom.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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