[Buildroot] git binary diffs are not supported

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Jul 16 13:25:04 UTC 2014


Dear Jörg Krause,

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:44:49 +0200, Jörg Krause wrote:

> I am trying to apply a git binary patch to add a firmware binary blob to 
> the linux kernel firmware directory. I am using git format-patch 
> --binary -M -n -s to create the patch and copy it to the global patch 
> directory. Trying to build linux fails while patching with the following 
> error message:
> 
>     git binary diffs are not supported.
> 
> Do I missed something? I would be glad for any advice!

We don't use git to apply patches when building packages in Buildroot,
we use the plain old patch, which indeed doesn't support binary diffs.
Not sure how to solve this situation. Does your firmware really needs
to be part of the kernel build process? Can't it be loaded from the
filesystem at boot time, as is done for all the firmwares in the
linux-firmware package? If that was possible, then you would simply
have to create a simple Buildroot package that installs your firmware
into /lib/firmware/.

Best regards,

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


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