[Buildroot] Skipping Kernel Build

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 24 21:00:39 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:05:55 +0000, Tauferner, Andrew T wrote:

> Is it possible to point Buildroot at a bzImage and have that pulled
> in during the Buildroot build rather than always doing a kernel
> build?  I have a custom kernel that is already built that I want
> Buildroot to use without rebuilding the kernel.  It looks to me like
> Buildroot is always building the kernel.

Not correct: Buildroot only builds the Linux kernel if told todo so.

> I'm new to Buildroot so maybe I just don't see the option in the
> Buildroot Kernel menus. 

In the top-level menu: Kernel -> Linux kernel. Disable it.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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