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