[Buildroot] Using a local kernel tarball?

[Bill Borton]

Even better!  Thank you again.

-Bill


On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:57:51 +0100
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Bill Borton <security at conwin.com> wrote:
> > Thank you sir.
> >
> > That was actually one of the first things I tried:
> > "file://board/company/product/kernel.tar.bz"
> > which doesn't work. I also tried ../ and ../../
> >
> > With your suggestion I went back and tried again:
> > "file://../../../board/company/product/kernel.tar.bz"
> > Does the trick...
> >
> > I knew there must be a simple solution.
> 
> You can do away with the relative paths using a make variable like TOPDIR:
> 
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="file://$(TOPDIR)/board/company/product/kernel.tar.bz"
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas