[OE-core] Including the kernel in the image

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com> wrote:
> 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...

And I meant to finish by saying qemu/kvm can also use a rootfs in a rootfs...

-M