[OpenWrt-Devel] [LEDE-DEV] Bounty: simplify extracting/restoring kernel .config

[Zoltan Gyarmati]

On 01/31/2017 10:19 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2017-01-29 22:37, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I’m working on a project where I need to be able to force certain
>> kernel configuration parameters from a script, to automate building
>> tailored kernels for performance testing, certification, etc.
>>
>> I love the way that I can use “scripts/diffconfig.sh” to save the
>> deltas into a file… update the cloning/checkout of master over time,
>> yet retain my saved overrides by doing a “cp ../my.config .config ;
>> make defconfig oldconfig” and always end up with a known/good
>> configuration.
>>
>> Alas, I can’t do the same for the target kernel in a scripted way.
>>
>> I’d like to put out a bounty for doing so.  If you’re interested,
>> contact me via email to discuss the deliverable and the terms of
>> payment.
>>
>> Ideally, this would be of broad enough applicability that I’d want to
>> upstream this back to OpenWRT for everyone, so keep that in mind as
>> well.
> This is already implemented. You can put any kernel configuration
> overrides into env/kernel-config.
> Generating those is fairly easy too, you can use this command:
> make kernel_menuconfig CONFIG_TARGET=env
> You can also put a full kernel config in that file instead of a delta.
> Running make kernel_oldconfig CONFIG_TARGET=env afterwards will reduce
> that full config to a delta relative to the defaults that LEDE uses.

Dear Felix & All,

might be slightly off-topic, but: Is there any similar mechanism to
customize/override not only the kernel config but also the device tree file?

>
> - Felix
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Thx in advance, regards,

Zoltan Gyarmati
https://zgyarmati.de


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