[Buildroot] Moving from 2.6.36.1 to 2.6.35.11 (or perhaps 2.6.35.9)

[Bjørn Forsman]

Hi,

On 20 February 2011 00:21, Charles Krinke <charles.krinke at gmail.com> wrote:
> My group desires to use the 2.6.35.11 kernel as it is listed as a longterm
> stable kernel instead of the 2.6.36.1 buildroot currently supports <sigh>.
>
> In looking at at buildroot, it appears that changine
> buildroot-2010.11/.config BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_HEADERS *and* linux/Config.in
> (3 places) would do it to change to an arbitrary kernel version.
>
> Is this the correct procedure to change these two files? I can make it work
> with 2.6.35.9, but it seems that kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ contains
> up to 2.6.35.9 but not 2.6.35.10 or 2.6.35.11 so 2.6.35.9 works but
> 2.6.35.11 fails.

I don't think editing files is necessary: In 'make menuconfig' you can
change the kernel mirror, set custom kernel version string or set a
full kernel tarball URL.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman