[OE-core] Including the kernel in the image

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some boot configurations (e.g. kexecboot) having the kernel binary in the
> image is required. In OE Classic, task-boot used to always include the kernel
> binary in the image (via RRECOMMENDS, so it could be uninstalled). We don't
> currently have this in OE-Core and I was wondering what the new preferred way
> to have this done would be.
>
> Obviously we could go and add it to various images or even to task-core-boot
> again but I'm not sure that's ideal. Wanting the kernel in the image is really
> machine-specific (or to be precise, boot method specific); so I'm wondering if
> adding it to MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS for all machines likely to
> need it is the right thing to do?

kexec and qemu/kvm could use this...

-M