[OE-core] [PATCH V2 0/1] kernel-grub.bbclass: a method to install/update for bzImage
Hongxu Jia
hongxu.jia at windriver.com
Wed Sep 18 07:26:40 UTC 2013
Change in V2: Create a "kernel-grub.bbclass" to do the job which means
it is disabled by default.
Test Case:
1. Add INHERIT_append = " kernel-grub" to local.conf and build a new kernel
image rpm package.
2. Prepare a deployed target, and make sure your boot area has enough disk
space (free space >= 5MB).
3. Download the new kernel image rpm to the target.
4. Before install/update, check boot area and menu
root at qemux86-64:~# ls /boot/
grub vmlinuz
root at qemux86-64:~# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
menuentry "Linux" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 rw console=tty0 quiet
}
4. Install/update bzImage
root at qemux86-64:~# rpm -i kernel-image-3.10.11-yocto-standard-3.10.12+git0+285f93bf94_702040ac7c-r0.qemux86_64.rpm
Caution! Update kernel may affect kernel-module!
update-alternatives: Linking //boot/bzImage to bzImage-3.10.11-yocto-standard
5. After install/update, check boot area and menu
root at qemux86-64:~# ls /boot/ -al
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 18 06:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Sep 18 06:41 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 18 06:58 bzImage -> bzImage-3.10.11-yocto-standard
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5601808 Sep 18 06:45 bzImage-3.10.11-yocto-standard
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 18 06:58 grub
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 5601776 Sep 18 06:38 vmlinuz
root at qemux86-64:~# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
menuentry "Update bzImage-3.10.11-yocto-standard-3.10.12+gitAUTOINC+285f93bf94_702040ac7c" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /bzImage-3.10.11-yocto-standard root=/dev/hdb2 rw console=tty0 quiet
}
menuentry "Linux" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 rw console=tty0 quiet
}
6. Reboot target, 'Update bzImage-3.10.11-yocto-standard-3.10.12+gitAUTOINC+285f93bf94_702040ac7c'
will be in the boot menu.
7. It supports GRUB 0.97 in which use menu.lst rather than grub.cfg as config
file.
8. If you install the same rpm more than one time with '--force', there will
be multiple kernel images in boot area and menu.
//Hongxu
The following changes since commit 825cfeb2e6777a55077ecff32d5b2c0e3da13ae8:
bitbake: usermanual.xml: Two new sections added to BitBake "Description" (2013-09-17 22:27:56 +0100)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib hongxu/update-bzimage
http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=hongxu/update-bzimage
Hongxu Jia (1):
kernel-grub.bbclass: a method to install/update for bzImage
meta/classes/kernel-grub.bbclass | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 meta/classes/kernel-grub.bbclass
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