Re: [PATCH 2/3] kernel.bbclass: Pull in tweaks from oe-core patch to local copy

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Franklin S. Cooper Jr wrote:
> The below patch has been submitted to oe-core. Modify local copy of
> kernel.bbclass to mimic this patch until patch is upstreamed.

Have you addressed the latest comments for the upstream patch:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/41748/focus=41752

I would prefer to avoid overlaying a complete class locally just for this 
simple fix. Having a smaller bbappend with do_install_append() seems like a 
less intrusive change... Comments?


> kernel.bbclass: Create symbolic link to add ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} to boot package
> * By default for some platforms U-boot assumes the kernel image is located in
>   the boot directory of the root filesystem.
> * The kernel.bbclass already includes the kernel image in the /boot directory
>   but adds a version number to the file name.
> * Create a symbolic link that names the kernel image in the exact way that
>   U-boot expects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Franklin S. Cooper Jr <fcooper@ti.com>
> ---
>  meta-arago-distro/classes/kernel.bbclass |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta-arago-distro/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index 3320747..1211911 100644
> --- a/meta-arago-distro/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ kernel_do_install() {
>  	install -d ${D}/${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}
>  	install -d ${D}/boot
>  	install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} ${D}/${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${KERNEL_VERSION}
> +	ln      -sf ${D}/${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${KERNEL_VERSION} ${D}/${KERNEL_IMAGEDEST}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}
>  	install -m 0644 System.map ${D}/boot/System.map-${KERNEL_VERSION}
>  	install -m 0644 .config ${D}/boot/config-${KERNEL_VERSION}
>  	install -m 0644 vmlinux ${D}/boot/vmlinux-${KERNEL_VERSION}
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
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