[OE-core] [OE-core Yocto PATCH 3/4] bootimg: Skip build iso image for aarch64

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 5 March 2015 at 15:06, Naresh Bhat <naresh.bhat at linaro.org> wrote:

>>>if d.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', True) == "aarch64":
>>>               return
>>>
>>>Does it make sense ?
>>
>> At least the parser should grok it.
>> The change itself does not make sense to me either way.
> I did this change because it does not make any sense to build the ISO
> image for aarch64 architecture.  The HDD image should be sufficient.
> Correct me if I am wrong.  I find a dependency of syslinux package to
> build ISO image (isolinux.bin).  I have skipped the syslinux package
> dependency @luvOS distribution.  The syslinux package contains lot of
> x86 assembly code. That's the reason I just want to skip the ISO image
> build for aarch64 architecture.

COMPATIBLE_HOST of syslinux should have prevented you from building
syslinux for aarch64 in the first place, no?

My assumption is that building this part of bootimg class for aarch64
is wrong, you should have gotten an error when you attempt to build
the HDD-image for non-i386 compatible targets.
So, maybe, NOHDD should be (automagically) set based on
COMPATIBLE_HOST or something like this?
But then i don't really see why your aarch64 is the first to encounter
this so maybe your config is just wrong instead?

Not my homework though ;)

thanks,