[poky] Simple recipe for local kernel/git development

[O'donoghue, Bryan]

> > Easily supported. I'll follow up once my fetches have completed here
> > and I see that the
> > recipe builds properly.
> 
> Sorry for the slow reply, I got bogged down fixing a few things.
> 
> I confirmed that the sample recipe I mentioned still builds. Although
> I do have some
> tweaks to things that I'm preparing for master at the moment. But they
> are
> cosmetic/streamlining changes, not fundamental issues.
> 
> The recipe I was referring to is here:
> 
>   http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-extras/tree/meta-
> kernel-dev/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-korg.bb
> 
> cloning poky-extras and looking in meta-kernel-dev will get you your
> own copy.
> 
> The recipe is intended to build kernel.org, or really any git
> repository, plus a defconfig.
> 
> It creates some minimal infrastructure to work with the yocto tools,
> and to create someplace
> that work could be done, and then flipped into a formatted kernel
> feature. But the branch that
> is built is created automatically and directly off the point you
> specify. Which in our case would
> be master HEAD.
> 
> You'd need to tweak the kernel version, etc, but in the end it the
> build system that consumes
> and uses that, more than the kernel build itself.

Thanks very much Bruce.

We'll give it a whirl and let you know how we go
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