[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] kernel.bbclass: move uImage handling to separate task

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> Op 18 dec. 2011, om 20:47 heeft Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov het volgende geschreven:
>
>> As per org.oe.dev and meta-oe's kernel.bbclass move uImage creation to
>> separate task from do_deploy. This way the do_install task can also
>> benefit from generated uImage.
>>
>> The only major feature of oe-core's version (not to recreate uImage
>> if it exists) is retained in this patch.
>
> I still don't agree with that behaviour. The in-kernel uImage code is just like the in-kernel defconfigs: useless for people who aren't kernel developers.

In that case, shouldn't people doing u-boot development (or other
non-kernel developers),
be building a uImage via something that isn't in kernel.bbclass ?

Cheers,

Bruce

>
>> On the contra, as this version
>> was merged from meta-oe/org.oe.dev, new function has another feature:
>> it permits overriding the u-boot entrypoint via u-boot symbol.
>
> No it doesn't, since it doesn't recreate uImage.
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