[oe] Using openembedded with externally built kernel

[Diego Sueiro]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org
> wrote:

> I have a platform with a very barebones BSP that builds and patches a 2.6
> kernel using a whole lot of shell scripts and patch files.
> Integrating this build process into a .bb file is too complicated at the
> moment.
>
> Since cross compiling all packages I need is a nightmare to do manually, I
> wonder if I can get OE to use the prebuilt kernel along with
> its kernel modules and headers instead of trying to build a new kernel.
> Ideally, I would just tell it where the kernel headers are, where
> the uImage is, and where the modules are. I imagine this as some kind of
> kernel .bb file setting things up to not actually build anything.
>
> My question is: is this possible? All I could find was about external
> toolchains and external kernel modules.
>

I believe that you have to wright your own recipe with custom do_compile,
do_install etc functions.



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