[Buildroot] linux: why is vmlinux only available for mips?

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas and Thomas, All,

On Friday 15 July 2011 14:30:53 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:34:34 +0200,
> Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > * I need to get to the dtc (device tree compiler) which resides in
> > <linux>/scripts/dtc/dtc
> 
> This tool looks like a useful host tool built by the kernel. Maybe we
> should install it in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin ?
> 
> > * I need to be able to compile external kernel modules, so in that
> > Makefile I need to point to the right kernel directory.
> 
> Ok. Those could be integrated as Buildroot packages, in which case
> getting access to the Linux source directory is easy.

Or use the 'build' and 'source' symlinks in the (rootfs)/lib/modules/(version)
Of course, it still requires the version string, which Daniele provided
a very simple way to get it.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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