[OE-core] [PATCH 0/7] Add basic fitImage support

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 01:26:01 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 19 October 2014 20:15, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > This series cleans up the code in kernel.bbclass and
> > separates out the uImage generation. The last patch
> > in this series then adds support for generation of the
> > advanced successor of the uImage, the fitImage.
> > 
> > This series adds only very rudimentary support for
> > generation of fitImage. The advanced features might
> > be added in subsequent patches.
> > 
> > I would also like to thank Richard for explaining to
> > me how to properly do the implementation and I hope
> > this series is at least close to that.
> 
> For what it's worth I pulled these patches for initial testing and I got
> 
> build failures with the fsl-ppc kernel:
> | "mkimage" command not found - U-Boot images will not be built
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-fsl-ppc-lsb/buil
> ds/77/steps/BuildImages/logs/stdio
> 
> These patches were not the only ones pulled into that branch, but they're
> the only relevant change that I can see.  It looks like a native dependency
> disappeared somewhere, can you have a look at this?

Yes, thank you for spotting this. I will keep this in mind when submitting V2.

I believe this is what Koen had in mind when he mentioned this patchset might 
break the BSPs. He even proposed a solution, but I need to dig in it a bit
more and properly understand and implement it.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut