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I am using buildroot and did not see a difference between:

make nconfig

and 

make linux-nconfig

Is there a difference?

john s.
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    Former for Buildroot configuration itself, second for a *linux* package, but since you don't see the difference it might be just an alias. – 0andriy Apr 22 '17 at 08:47

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make nconfig runs the configuration of Buildroot itself (i.e. selecting which packages to build, which architecture, which toolchain, etc). make linux-nconfig runs the configuration of the Linux kernel. It will first download and extract the kernel, and then run the kernel Kconfig infrastructure. It allows you to select CPU, drivers, filesystems etc.

Arnout
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  • Does changes in the linux kernel .config (e.g. new packages) have influence on the buildroot .config? – john s. Apr 24 '17 at 07:44
  • Not sure what you mean - the linux kernel .config doesn't configure packages, it configures kernel options. It's pretty much orthogonal to the Buildroot .config. – Arnout Apr 26 '17 at 13:07