[OE-core] [PATCH 4/7] kernel: Pull uImage generation into separate class

[Koen Kooi]

> Op 22 okt. 2014, om 01:28 heeft Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> On Monday, October 20, 2014 at 12:26:04 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Op 19 okt. 2014, om 21:15 heeft Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> het volgende
>>> geschreven:
>>> 
>>> Pull the uImage image format generation from kernel.bbclass into
>>> a separate kernel-uimage.bbclass. The recipes which now need to
>>> generate an uImage will have to inherit kernel-uimage instead of
>>> kernel class.
>> 
>> To keep backward compatibility, could you rework this into something like:
>> 
>> kernel.bbclass:
>> 	inherit kernel-${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}
>> 
>> kernel-${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}:
>> 	inherit kernel-base
>> 	imagetype stuff
>> 
>> kernel-base:
>> 	old kernel.bbclass stuff
>> 
>> That would keep existing BSPs working *and* split out the image types.
> 
> Yes, this makes sense. Are there any traps inside kernel.bbclass I should
> be careful about? Like for example ${PN} or other possible variables which
> are set based on the name of the file?

You should be safe, PN is supposed to be completely ignored since the output packages will all be 'kernel-<foo>' instead of 'linux-myfirstbsp-<foo>'

regards,

Koen