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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> Op 18 dec. 2011, om 21:27 heeft Bruce Ashfield het volgende geschreven:
>
>> 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 ?
>
> I use the kernel.bbclass in meta-oe, that does what I need.

ok. I was just trying to wrap my head around the use case, since I'm missing
something, and that would help me understand what is missing in the in kernel
uImage generation scripts. With that, we could see about getting
changes upstream
to address deficiencies.

Cheers,

Bruce

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