[oe-commits] Marek Vasut : kernel: Build uImage only when really needed

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Module: openembedded-core.git
Branch: master
Commit: e6952593d810636f26af541b12126848483e619a
URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=e6952593d810636f26af541b12126848483e619a

Author: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:31:13 2015 +0200

kernel: Build uImage only when really needed

Build the uImage file using the kernel build system only when
it is really required, which is only in case KEEPUIMAGE == yes.
Otherwise, just build zImage, since the Yocto build system will
handle the uImage generation for us.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
Cc: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
Cc: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
Cc: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

---

 meta/classes/kernel-uimage.bbclass | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-uimage.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-uimage.bbclass
index ce8f96f..f73965b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel-uimage.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel-uimage.bbclass
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ python __anonymous () {
         depends = d.getVar("DEPENDS", True)
         depends = "%s u-boot-mkimage-native" % depends
         d.setVar("DEPENDS", depends)
+
+	# Override KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE variable, which is internal
+	# to kernel.bbclass . We override the variable here, since we need
+	# to build uImage using the kernel build system if and only if
+	# KEEPUIMAGE == yes. Otherwise, we pack compressed vmlinux into
+	# the uImage .
+	if d.getVar("KEEPUIMAGE", True) != 'yes':
+            d.setVar("KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE", "zImage")
 }
 
 do_uboot_mkimage() {