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The aim is to build and install the USB Video Class (UVC) module, via make modules_install. I'm trying to configure the kernel via make menuconfig on Angstrom distribution, running on BeagleBoard-xM. Angstrom image (console only) was build on Narcissus online image builder. Angstrom kernel is 2.6.32.

I receive the following error: make: *** No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop.

It seems that there are no kernel sources because usr/src contains nothing. Should I have to download Linux kernel 2.6.32 from kernel.org and what should be my next steps in order to configure the kernel?

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Normally the kernel and packages for embedded systems are built with a cross-compiler on desktop/server then they are packaged into one image and finally copied to the embedded system and flashed the SRAM or NAND/NOR Flash.

I personally like the OpenEmbedded distro which is easy to build.

Howto Beagleboard

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  • I 'll have OpenEmbedded in mind. Do you have any suggestion in this case? Thank's anyway.
    – dempap
    Jan 20, 2014 at 18:03
  • In your local config you should have the path to ~/oe/recipes/linux where you have the regular bitbake build file and configure patches as needed. It's been a while since I touched this. Perhaps it is more convenient to use the build from beaglebone ore some alternatives like emdebian or openwrt debian etc.
    – user55518
    Jan 20, 2014 at 18:23
  • @dempap: added also a howto link.
    – user55518
    Jan 20, 2014 at 19:20
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You can download it from kernel.org and extract it on /usr/src/ after that you should copy existing kernel config from /boot to /usr/src/linux-2.6.x/.config. You can run :

 make menuconfig
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  • Not sure about embedded systems, but menuconfig on x86/amd64 requires ncurses dev files and a few other packages. If you have a known good config at /usr/src/linux/.config it may be easiest to run "make oldconfig"
    – ivanivan
    Mar 23, 2017 at 3:51
  • You can use existing config from /boot/config-2.6.x and copied as .config.Sure, you should install all dependencies when you want to compile kernel from source code.
    – supriady
    Mar 23, 2017 at 5:36

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