Re: [PATCH] archiver.bbclass: do checkout for kernel

[Jian Liu <jian.liu@windriver.com>]

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On 2015年11月13日 16:16, Jian Liu wrote:
> Hi Raj,
>
> I tried meta-rasberrypi with my patch and it works well.
> The tasks of the recipe linux-rasberrypi is similar with linux-yocto 
> and linux-rasberrypi also inherits linux-yocto.bbclass
>
> I read the codes of archiver and it seems that kernel is recognised by 
> "bb.data.inherits_class('kernel-yocto', d)" when kernel needs to be 
> handled specially
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks!
> Jian
>
> On 2015年11月05日 10:22, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Jian Liu <jian.liu@windriver.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> All kernels I list bellow will perform do_fetch(), do_unpack(),
>>> do_kernel_checkout().
>>> do_unpack() will put a bare git repo under WORKDIR and then
>>> do_kernel_checkout()
>>> will move the bare repo to bitbake/tmp/work-share/<board
>>> name>/kernel-source(value of variable S),
>>> then performing "git checkout".
>>>
>>> So do_ar_original must wait until do_kernel_checkout() is completed 
>>> and then
>>> make tarball using the code under S.
>>> Do I make that clear?
>>>
>>>
>>> You refer to kernels other than linux-yocto. Can you give me an 
>>> example?
>>> I do not know how to build such kernel.
>> Add another BSP layer e.g. meta-raspberrypi to your bblayers.conf
>> and then MACHINE=raspberrypi2
>>
>> and see what you are trying to do still holds.
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jian
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015年11月04日 13:57, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 1:22 AM, Jian Liu<jian.liu@windriver.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I test linux-dummy linux-yocto-dev linux-yocto-rt 
>>>>>> linux-yocto-tiny and
>>>>>> the result is as follows,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> linux-dummy: this package just meets some dependency and there is no
>>>>>> source code for it.
>>>>>>                       The patch does not impact it
>>>>>> linux-yocto, linux-yocto-dev, linux-yocto-rt, linux-yocto-tiny: 
>>>>>> The S
>>>>>> variable of all packages is set to STAGING_KERNEK_DIR.
>>>>>>                        do_fetch and do_unpack just leave a bare 
>>>>>> git repo
>>>>>> of kernel and do_kernel_checkout gets the source code
>>>>>>
>>>> does it cover the case when kernel is not linux-yocto was basic 
>>>> question,
>>>> I am not clear if thats covered in any of above
>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>