Re: [rock-user] rock-user Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1

Blacky <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:03:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.user
Organization Blackies.De
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Dienstag, 1. November 2005 12:00 schrieb [email protected]:
> Am Montag 31 Oktober 2005 08:25 schrieb Andreas V. Meier:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:48:31AM +0100, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
> > > Alan J.Wylie wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:37:16 +0100, Blacky <[email protected]> said:
> > > >>I would like to create a static kernel.
> > > >
> > > > To build a kernel with a custom .config, the best thing to do is to
> > > > create a new target.
> > >
> > > That's not quite correct. The easiest way is to just create the
> > > configuration with scripts/Config, select "Custom Linux Kernel
> > > Configuration" and then just dump the .config into
> > > config/<configname>/linux.cfg.
> >
> > I think this approach will not work, as in the .config unselected
> > values are commented out. The linux.cfg get's appended to the
> > automatically generated .config, so values just commented out in the
> > linux.cfg will keep the value as specified in the .config.
That's a valuable point. The sequence of processing the files as well as the 
possibility to adapt parameters by the Config script give advantage to 
linux.cfg.

> It works if you also select 'Do not perform any automatic kernel
> configuration' in the Linux kernel menu of ./scripts/Config. Then
> config/<configname>/linux.cfg will be used as the kernel .config without
> modifications.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> 	Stefan Fiedler
All right.
Thanks
Blacky

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