[Buildroot] How to build Kernel 2.6.x

Richard Braun rbraun at sceen.net
Wed Nov 14 15:28:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:24:56PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > The one reason I feel hestitate to use 3.6 is
> > that I am not sure 3.6 will results in a zImage too large thant that I
> > could got with 2.6.  Do you have an experience in this? Thanks.
> 
> Depends on what configuration options you enable in the kernel, and how
> small your zImage needs to be. Most likely on a S3C2410 based platform
> you have enough flash space to handle a reasonably sized zImage.

Not to mention the improvements regarding kernel compression.

-- 
Richard Braun



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