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-Abhinav

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:59 AM, darius <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Well information in the wiki is not very clear. Ive read that lots and
> lots of times (about make kernel_menuconfig), but not much help for me.
> I'll try later to do what you suggest and will see. Yesterday I've made
> compilation and saw that libraries for kernel modules are compiled and
> stored in
> '../build/openwrt/trunk/build_dir/target-mips_r2_uClibc-0.9.33.2/linux-ar71xx_generic/iptables-1.4.10/extensions',
> but it's not in the firmware image. I'll do more tests today later and let
> you know.
> Thank you all for help !
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Mark Constable <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 12/01/13 19:30, darius wrote:
>> > Thanks for replying. So why do we need 'make kernel_menuconfig'? Is it
>> > only for configuring kernel option which later must be compiled not with
>> > 'make'? How then externally build kernel will be included into
>> firmware's
>> > 'bin' file? I'm really lost. Please could you guide me a little bit
>> more?
>> > I'd like to include some features into kernell statically. Or maybe it
>> is
>> > easier to do it as module?
>>
>> I haven't actually done this but according to the wiki page below you can
>> do a "make kernel_menuconfig" after a "make menuconfig" but before doing
>> the final make and that should include your kernel changes. Not that the
>> description below is explicit but it's implied by the context surrounding
>> the below section on the wiki... or that's how it seems to me anyway.
>>
>> http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/build
>>
>> Kernel configuration
>>
>> While you won't typically need to do this, you can do it:
>>
>> make kernel_menuconfig
>>
>> Note that make kernel_menuconfig modifies the Kernel configuration
>> templates
>> of the build tree, clearing the build_dir will not revert them. The
>> changes
>> can be reviewed with svn diff target/linux/ and reverted with svn revert
>> -R
>> target/linux/.
>>
>> See: Customizing the kernel options
>>
>>
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