Developing device-drivers without rebuilding the hole kernel

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Sat Dec 18 05:18:30 PST 2004


On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:09:05PM +0100, "Anton Wöllert" wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i want to edit the syscons driver for additional vesa-support. but i don't
> want to rebuild the whole kernel every time i add a few new lines or a
> function. is there a way to just build the syscons object file and maby a
> few dependencies every time and then just link it together with the rest of
> the kernel, which i've builded once?
> 
> 
> i hope someone can help me. thanks in advance.

make -DNOCLEAN buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL

should do the trick.



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Erik Trulsson
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