Re: [PATCH 4/7] kernel: Pull uImage generation into separate class

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Monday, October 20, 2014 at 12:26:04 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Op 19 okt. 2014, om 21:15 heeft Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> het volgende
> > geschreven:
> > 
> > Pull the uImage image format generation from kernel.bbclass into
> > a separate kernel-uimage.bbclass. The recipes which now need to
> > generate an uImage will have to inherit kernel-uimage instead of
> > kernel class.
> 
> To keep backward compatibility, could you rework this into something like:
> 
> kernel.bbclass:
> 	inherit kernel-${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}
> 
> kernel-${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}:
> 	inherit kernel-base
> 	imagetype stuff
> 
> kernel-base:
> 	old kernel.bbclass stuff
> 
> That would keep existing BSPs working *and* split out the image types.

There are multiple KERNEL_IMAGETYPE options than just uImage, so I will change
the kernel.bbclass like so instead:

kernel.bbclass:
	inherit kernel-base
	inherit kernel-uimage

This will keep the BSPs working and then the new imagetypes (not fitImage,
since fitImage will inherit kernel-uimage) will do this:

kernel-${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE).bbclass:
	inherit kernel-base
	imagetype stuff

Does this make sense please ?

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut