Re: [meta-ti] [PATCH v7 00/20] FIT image improvements

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 02:11:57PM +0000, Adrian Freihofer via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi Francesco
> 
> Congratulate, your CI is faster than I am with updating the
> documentation :-). But in the mean time published the corresponding
> documentation update too:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/7017
> 
> Yes, unfortunately there is a breaking change. The modification has
> undergone extensive review through several months of technical meetings
> and patch review sessions. A very brief migration guide is here.
> 
> Coming from a configuration like:
>   KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "fitImage"
>   KERNEL_CLASSES = "kernel-fitimage"
> and building a kernel like:
>   bitbake linux-yocto
> 
> needs to be changed to:
>   KERNEL_CLASSES = "kernel-fit-extra-artifacts"
> and building a kernel like:
>   bitbake linux-yocto-fitimage

Quick question here - can you still produce multple kernel types in a single 
go from a single kernel recipe? E.g. old KERNEL_IMAGETYPES = "Image fitImage"

Or are those now mutually exclusive?


> I hope that helps. Otherwise, please let me know.
> Adrian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2025-06-06 at 12:29 +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > Hello Adrian,
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 10:23:11AM +0200, AdrianF wrote:
> > > From: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>
> > >
> > > This patch series re-writes the FIT image related code. The goal is
> > > to
> > > fix [YOCTO #12912] which is a long standing issue.
> >
> > I did not have time to look into the details yet, but it seems that
> > this
> > breaks build with meta-ti.
> >
> > > 06-05:18:06:33  ERROR: ParseError at
> > > /workdir/oe/build/../layers/openembedded-core/meta/classes-
> > > recipe/kernel.bbclass:183: Could not inherit file classes/kernel-
> > > fitimage.bbclass
> > > 06-05:18:06:33  ERROR: Parsing halted due to errors, see error
> > > messages above
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/dolcini/8240a229516e7a93356ebba56631d3c0
> >
> > Francesco
> >