[OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] Usage of "elf" IMAGE_TYPES

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I know it's late in our 2.4 cycle, but we recently discovered that
> mkelfImage fails due to a recent upgrade to binutils. In doing some
> research, mkelfimage was removed back in Oct 2014 from the coreboot
> repo. It was replaced with cbfstool.
>
> Unless I hear otherwise, I recommend that we mark elf Images as
> deprecated for 2.4 and remove them in 2.5.
>
> I have not yet dived into exactly what binutil change triggered the
> failure.
>
> Further thoughts?

you should describe what the errors are, maybe then we can make further
inroads into problem. As far as removal is concerned, I support that

>
> Sau!
>
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