[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2 v3] image_types: Add elf image type

[Saul Wold]

On 07/02/2012 08:05 AM, Raymond Danks wrote:
> On 07/01/2012 10:22 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
>> On 06/29/2012 01:19 PM, Raymond Danks wrote:
>>> On x86, an ELF image file may be stored as a coreboot payload.
>>> The image file is constructed, using the mkelfimage utility,
>>> from a kernel and an initrd.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Raymond Danks<ray.danks at se-eng.com>
>>> ---
>>> This was originally submitted to the openembedded project:
>>> http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/7689/
>>>
>>> v3:
>>> Include DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE and KERNEL_IMAGETYPE for location of ELF_KERNEL
>>>
>>> meta/classes/image_types.bbclass | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>>> 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
>>> b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
>>> index 55f122e..64fa14a 100644
>>> --- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
>>> +++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
>>> @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ def get_imagecmds(d):
>>> ctypes = d.getVar('COMPRESSIONTYPES', True).split()
>>> cimages = {}
>>>
>>> + if "elf" in alltypes:
>>> + alltypes.remove("elf")
>>> + if "cpio.gz" not in alltypes:
>>> + alltypes.append("cpio.gz")
>>> + alltypes.append("elf")
>>> +
>>> # Filter out all the compressed images from types
>>> for type in alltypes:
>>> basetype = None
>>> @@ -173,6 +179,14 @@ IMAGE_CMD_cpio () {
>>> cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}&& (find . | cpio -o -H
>>> newc>${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio)
>>> }
>>>
>>> +ELF_KERNEL ?= ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}
>>
>> I guess this was not tested very well, as this failed right out of the
>> gate.
> Thanks for giving this a shot Sau. Could you be more specific regarding
> the failure you are seeing?

Sorry, It was Sunday evening and I was a little grumpy at the failure 
occuring after all the version.


ERROR: ParseError at 
/intel/poky/distro/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass:182: unparsed line: 
'ELF_KERNEL ?= ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}'

My guess is because you forgot the quotes on that line, now why I hit it 
instantly and you did not see it I am not sure.

bitbake world and it will fail

>>
>> Please let me know what kind of testing you have done.
> This was tested rather exhaustively on an x86_64->x86_64 configuration
> prior to the latest changes to the above line. I have only tested this
> using the bzImage kernel type. I did feel that I had tested the above
> line as well, but it's possible I had something cached somewhere. I'll
> kick off a clean build and see if anything surfaces.
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sau!
>>> +ELF_APPEND ?= "ramdisk_size=32768 root=/dev/ram0 rw console="
>>> +
>>> +IMAGE_CMD_elf () {
>>> + test -f ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.elf&& rm -f
>>> ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.elf
>>> + mkelfImage --kernel=${ELF_KERNEL}
>>> --initrd=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio.gz
>>> --output=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.elf
>>> --append='${ELF_APPEND}' ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD}
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> UBI_VOLNAME ?= "${MACHINE}-rootfs"
>>>
>>> IMAGE_CMD_ubi () {
>>> @@ -199,6 +213,7 @@ EXTRA_IMAGECMD_ext2 ?= "-i 8192"
>>> EXTRA_IMAGECMD_ext3 ?= "-i 8192"
>>> EXTRA_IMAGECMD_ext4 ?= "-i 8192"
>>> EXTRA_IMAGECMD_btrfs ?= ""
>>> +EXTRA_IMAGECMD_elf ?= ""
>>>
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS = ""
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_jffs2 = "mtd-utils-native"
>>> @@ -210,11 +225,12 @@ IMAGE_DEPENDS_ext4 = "genext2fs-native
>>> e2fsprogs-native"
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_btrfs = "btrfs-tools-native"
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_squashfs = "squashfs-tools-native"
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_squashfs-lzma = "squashfs-lzma-tools-native"
>>> +IMAGE_DEPENDS_elf = "virtual/kernel mkelfimage-native"
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_ubi = "mtd-utils-native"
>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_ubifs = "mtd-utils-native"
>>>
>>> # This variable is available to request which values are suitable for
>>> IMAGE_FSTYPES
>>> -IMAGE_TYPES = "jffs2 sum.jffs2 cramfs ext2 ext2.gz ext2.bz2 ext3
>>> ext3.gz ext2.lzma btrfs live squashfs squashfs-lzma ubi tar tar.gz
>>> tar.bz2 tar.xz cpio cpio.gz cpio.xz cpio.lzma vmdk"
>>> +IMAGE_TYPES = "jffs2 sum.jffs2 cramfs ext2 ext2.gz ext2.bz2 ext3
>>> ext3.gz ext2.lzma btrfs live squashfs squashfs-lzma ubi tar tar.gz
>>> tar.bz2 tar.xz cpio cpio.gz cpio.xz cpio.lzma vmdk elf"
>>>
>>> COMPRESSIONTYPES = "gz bz2 lzma xz"
>>> COMPRESS_CMD_lzma = "lzma -k -f -7 ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}"
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