Building Kernel w/ crosstool

[Royce Kemp]

greetings,

embedded developer/crosstool newbie here who just successfully built a 
toolchain. wow that was easy! thank you dan kegel!

now my next step is to build myself a kernel, but I was unclear how best to 
proceed: do i want to build the kernel using the source that was untarred 
into the build directory? or was that just to produce the kernel headers 
for building the toolchain? and if that's the case, then I don't really 
need to customize the .config file (i686.config in my case) as that was 
just to run make config. right? i hope that's right b/c then applying 
kernel patches (i.e. netfilters) can be deferred until after the toolchain 
is built.

i really like crosstool's idea of decoupling the 'creation of toolchains' 
from the 'usage of toolchains'. i had adopted the format used by Karim 
Yaghmour in Building Embedded Linux Systems which seemed to couple the 
embedded project with the toolchain itself. it was my desire to escape that 
constraint which led me to Google, which led me to crosstool. :) 



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