Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 1/3] kernel-uboot: move FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG to image-fitimage.conf

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2026-07-30 at 13:15 +0200, Nora Schiffer wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-07-30 at 11:43 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> Okay, new plan: Change uboot_prep_kimage to accept the compression algorithm as
> an argument, so we can use different variables when calling it from kernel-
> uimage.bbclass and kernel-fit-extra-artifacts.bbclass. kernel-uimage.bbclass
> could then use a separate variable UBOOT_MKIMAGE_KERNEL_COMP_ALG instead of
> reusing the FIT one.
> 
> A more radical approach would be to skip the deprecation of using a linux.bin
> generated by the kernel recipe as a FIT image's kernel and drop support
> immediately.

Can you see from the commit history who might have been using that? Do
you think there are many people relying upon it? If that functionality
doesn't make much sense and wouldn't or shouldn't be used by people,
I'm fine with actually removing it, as long as we're clear about why it
likely isn't needed or is inefficient (or whatever) and what the
alternative is.

A lot of the time I think we support too many code paths when we should
try and encourage people to do the "best" known things.

Cheers,

Richard