Commit 796e2b6c authored by Peter Korsgaard's avatar Peter Korsgaard
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docs/buildroot.html: document linux26-menuconfig / LINUX26_KCONFIG



This wasn't menitioned in the documentation as noticed by
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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      configuration</a></li>
      <li><a href="#custom_uclibc">Customizing the uClibc
      configuration</a></li>
      <li><a href="#custom_linux26">Customizing the Linux kernel
      configuration</a></li>
      <li><a href="#rebuilding_packages">Understanding how to rebuild packages</a></li>
      <li><a href="#buildroot_innards">How Buildroot works</a></li>
      <li><a href="#using_toolchain">Using the uClibc toolchain
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    internal toolchain is selected</li>
    <li><code>BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FILE=&lt;path/to/.config&gt;</code>, path
    to the Busybox configuration file</li>
    <li><code>LINUX26_KCONFIG=&lt;path/to/.config&gt;</code>, path
    to the Linux kernel configuration file</li>
    <li><code>BUILDROOT_COPYTO</code>, an additional location at which
    the binary images of the root filesystem, kernel, etc. built by
    Buildroot are copied</li>
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    <p>If you want to use an existing config file for uclibc, then see
    section <a href="#environment_variables">environment variables</a>. </p>

    <h2><a name="custom_linux26" id="custom_linux26"></a>Customizing
    the Linux kernel configuration</h2>

    <p>The Linux kernel configuration can be customized just like <a
    href="#custom_busybox">BusyBox</a> and <a href="#custom_uclibc">uClibc</a>
    using <code>make linux26-menuconfig</code>. Make sure you have
    enabled the kernel build in <code>make menuconfig</code> first.
    Once done, run <code>make</code> to (re)build everything.</p>

    <p>If you want to use an existing config file for Linux, then see
    section <a href="#environment_variables">environment variables</a>.</p>

    <h2><a name="#rebuilding_packages"
    id="rebuilding_packages">Understanding how to rebuild
    packages</a></h2>