From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L6XCi-00011V-OR for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:18:16 +0100 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L6X9a-00086f-8U for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:15:02 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:15:02 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:15:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081120 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append() X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:18:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 :)