[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2 v2] image_types: Add elf image type

[Darren Hart]

On 06/29/2012 08:41 AM, 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/
> 
> v2:
>  Include 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..12419f4 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 ?= ${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/kernel/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}

This should be ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR} I believe. I have a patch series
under review currently which would break the above as it is now in
/usr/src/kernel-headers

Note that you could also collect this from the DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE, which
is probably more appropriate for assembling images

Thanks,

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel