[OE-core] KERNEL_IMAGETYPES and Image.gz

[Kunihiko Hayashi]

On 2017/05/30 6:13, nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org (Nicolas Dechesne) wrote:
 > hi,
 >
 > i am trying to set  KERNEL_IMAGETYPES="Image.gz" in my machine conf
 > file. But it doesn't work. I am seeing this error during
 > kernel_do_compile():
 >
 > run.do_compile.30019: cannot open Image: No such file
 >
 > In fact the code snippet that tries to compress the Image file into
 > Image.gz expects the Image file to be in ${B}, but when compiling
 > kernel Image is actually in ${B}/arch/arm64/boot:
 >
 > $ find tmp-rpb-glibc/work/dragonboard_410c-linaro-linux/linux-linaro-qcomlt/
 > -name Image
 >  
tmp-rpb-glibc/work/dragonboard_410c-linaro-linux/linux-linaro-qcomlt/4.9-r0/build/arch/arm64/boot/Image
 >
 > The piece of code in question is in kernel.bbclass:
 >
 >   gzip -9c < "${typeformake}" > "${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type}"
 > It really sounds to me like something obvious is missing, i doubt I
 > would be the first one to try Image.gz..

I already suggested the patch to solve this issue.

https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/138596/

Although I've not received any comments on this yet, could you try to apply it?

 >
 > Any thoughts?
 >
 > thanks
 > nico
 >

Best Regards,
Kunihiko Hayashi