Hi, I'm trying to get yocto to build the kernel with an in-tree defconfig. For that I found references to the variable KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE.
However, I've been experiencing that the kernel is being built with some default defconfig, and not the in-tree one that came with the kernel and I defined with the KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE. I've looked through all yocto sources for where the KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE is actually used, and found it only in my kernel recipe. So I decided to dissect my recipe. There is a: inherit kernel in my recipe for which, besides others, defines how the kernel config will be selected. Looking at the sources of oe/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass exposes how the kernel configuration happens: kernel_do_configure() { # fixes extra + in /lib/modules/2.6.37+ # $ scripts/setlocalversion . => + # $ make kernelversion => 2.6.37 # $ make kernelrelease => 2.6.37+ touch ${B}/.scmversion ${S}/.scmversion if [ "${S}" != "${B}" ] && [ -f "${S}/.config" ] && [ ! -f "${B}/.config" ]; then mv "${S}/.config" "${B}/.config" fi # Copy defconfig to .config if .config does not exist. This allows # recipes to manage the .config themselves in do_configure_prepend(). if [ -f "${WORKDIR}/defconfig" ] && [ ! -f "${B}/.config" ]; then cp "${WORKDIR}/defconfig" "${B}/.config" fi ${KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND} } I'm planning a workaround by overriding the do_configure in my recipe to select the correct defconfig from the kernel. It does seem however like the KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE is exactly here to not have to do the workarounds. Anyone has experiences with successfully using KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_KMACHINE? Is it a specific poky feature (I'm not using poky but specific open embedded layers and bitbake)? Be Well, Alan Ref. https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/kernel-dev/kernel-dev.html#using-an-in-tree-defconfig-file -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto