I am working on an embedded system that uses buildroot as a tool for building the kernel and the root filesystem. I want to apply some patches to this kernel source tree, Can somebody tell me how buildroot apply patches?
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I am working on an embedded system that uses buildroot as a tool for building the kernel and the root filesystem. I want to apply some patches to this kernel source tree, Can somebody tell me how buildroot apply patches?
After studying the buildroot architecture, I came to know that buildroot uses quilt tool for applying the patches. quilt keeps track of all the patches in the a file named “series” which is present in the “patches” directory. You have to keep your patches in this directory. And add your entry of patches in the series file in the order in which you want the patches to be applied keeping the patch to be applied first at the top.
This way when you will run the buildroot makefile, it will automatically apply the patches listed in the series file.