Re: [PATCH 0/1 V2] Fix KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE deploy

[Yang Shi <yang.shi@windriver.com>]

On 7/16/2014 11:42 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
> When trying to bootup qemuarma9 BSP with uImage, I ran into the below issues:

In some usecases, a BSP may need two kernel image types coexist, like 
zImage and uImage.

For example, qemuarm BSP could be run on arm-versatile-926 board too, 
but it needs uImage. However, qemu needs zImage.

Yang

>
> 1. Need u-boot-mkimage-native depend.
> kernel.bbclass just checks if KERNEL_IMAGETYPE is uImage, if it is the depend will be added. But, it doesn't check KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE.
> In the patch, the check for alt image is added.
>
> 2. UBOOT_LOADADDRESS is passed to uboot-mkimage in do_uboot_mkimage. But, this function just check if KERNEL_IMAGETYPE is uImage or not. It doesn't check KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE.
> The patch adds the check.
>
> 3. KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE is not deployed at all, although it is built. So, we need install, deploy and package the atl image.
>
> Changelog V1 -> V2:
> Check if KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE is empty or not. If KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE is empty, just skip alt image install and deploy, otherwise it is failed to install/deploy
> because KERNEL_ALT_OUTPUT doesn't point to a real kernel image file.
>
> Yang
>
>
> The following changes since commit 68824d9b8f6e290da078383316b3f4b732585f2b:
>
>    u-boot-fw-utils: install config file (2014-06-25 13:51:49 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib yshi/kernel_altimg_v2
>    http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=yshi/kernel_altimg_v2
>
> for you to fetch changes up to a4d3971a48d0fb490537d755a19740cb25ea5f4c:
>
>    oe-core/kernel: Deploy KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE and check it for uImage (2014-07-16 11:36:12 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Yang Shi (1):
>        oe-core/kernel: Deploy KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE and check it for uImage
>
>   meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
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