Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append()

Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append()

[Leon Woestenberg]

Building u-boot images using mkimage is present in both
kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() as well as in
linux.inc:do_compile_append().

Which one has preference in the long run, and why?

Regards,
-- 
Leon

Re: Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append()

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 08:49:37PM +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:

> Building u-boot images using mkimage is present in both
> kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() as well as in
> linux.inc:do_compile_append().
> 
> Which one has preference in the long run, and why?

Um, why are either doing it when you can get it from
KERNEL_IMAGETYPE=uImage, at least on 2.6.  2.4 might depend on the
arch in question.

-- 
Tom Rini

Re: Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append()

[Koen Kooi]

On 29-11-08 20:49, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Building u-boot images using mkimage is present in both
> kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() as well as in
> linux.inc:do_compile_append().
>
> Which one has preference in the long run, and why?

The one in do_deploy has more fancy features IIRC, but that should be 
moved to do_compile, since we want to package the fancy one :)

The uImage that the kernel makefile generated should _not_ be used, 
since in OE we generally know better which start & load address to use 
and which compression method works best for us. Incidentally RMK agrees 
with me on that for a change :)

regards,

Koen

Re: Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append()

[Koen Kooi]

On 29-11-08 22:05, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 29-11-08 20:49, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Building u-boot images using mkimage is present in both
>> kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() as well as in
>> linux.inc:do_compile_append().
>>
>> Which one has preference in the long run, and why?
>
> The one in do_deploy has more fancy features IIRC, but that should be
> moved to do_compile, since we want to package the fancy one :)

I just checked kernel.bbclass and the uImage generation needs to get 
moved to do_compile, but the copying to deploy/ should be left in do_deploy.

regards,

Koen


> The uImage that the kernel makefile generated should _not_ be used,
> since in OE we generally know better which start & load address to use
> and which compression method works best for us. Incidentally RMK agrees
> with me on that for a change :)