Bug 8999

Summary: Extensible SDK: allow basic kernel config customisation
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Markus Lehtonen <markus.lehtonen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High CC: alexandru.c.georgescu, bruce.ashfield, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 2.1 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Paul Eggleton 2016-01-26 00:05:02 UTC
It would be useful if it were possible to make changes to the kernel configuration through the extensible SDK, so that devtool build-image would build a kernel with the changes applied. (We may be able to re-use existing tools we have for this.)
Comment 1 Markus Lehtonen 2016-01-29 09:15:59 UTC
Do you have any more detailed thoughts about this? Would e.g. menuconfig and automatic config fragment generation on devtool update-recipe be enough?
Comment 2 Paul Eggleton 2016-01-29 09:24:59 UTC
I think that sounds ideal. Certainly a good enough to satisfy this feature request at least.
Comment 3 Markus Lehtonen 2016-02-18 14:49:51 UTC
Patch sent for review:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-February/117709.html

After this patch, devtool now works on a single configuration fragment file, "devtool-fragment.cfg"
Comment 4 Markus Lehtonen 2016-02-29 09:51:11 UTC
Patch merged into master in
http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=524da136e5b837a60682516ac08f3092c635e934