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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:20:01 +0530
From: Siddharth Heroor <heroor@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] ti43x, omap-a15: switch KERNEL_IMAGETYPE to zImage by default
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On 9/26/2013 9:05 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:34:27PM +0530, Siddharth Heroor wrote:
>> On 9/26/2013 5:29 PM, Maupin, Chase wrote:
>>> Acked-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@ti.com>
>>
>> Just a question - is it possible to override the KERNEL_IMAGETYPE in a
>> branding.inc file? In general, we want to move to zImage for GLSDK but
>> some customers who might want to stay on uImage as they ramp.
> 
> It won't be very easy to do from a branding file. That's why I had to rev 
> the other patch to keep GLSDK 3.8 and AMSDK 3.2 kernel recipes on uImage, but 
> switch other platforms to zImage which already have recent enough u-boot...
> 
> When you have a new kernel/u-boot that prefers zImage (like the new 
> linux-ti-staging_git.bb we have for 3.12 integration), you can set the image 
> type to zImage in the kernel recipe, or rather not specify it at all, since 
> it will be picked up from machine config.
> 
> In other words, after the setting in the machine config, you have one more 
> option to override it in a specific kernel recipe. That way if your branding 
> selects latest kernel/u-boot combo, you get zImage by default from the machine 
> config. But if branding selects 3.2 kernel with early u-boot, it gets 
> overwritten back to uImage...
> 

Got it.

Thanks,
Sid