[OE-core] KERNEL_IMAGETYPES and Image.gz

[Kunihiko Hayashi]

On 2017/06/03 1:24, nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org (Nicolas Dechesne) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Kunihiko Hayashi
> <hayashi.kunihiko at socionext.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> thanks for sending this out. Well, unfortunately, I think your patch
> is doing something wrong.
>
> As discussed earlier on that thread, we should be using kernel
> Makefile to generate the target as much as possible. The linux build
> system can generate vmlinux, Image and Image.gz, but not vmlinux.gz.
> So we should compress only vmlinux 'outside' of the linux build
> system, and for Image.gz we shouldn't do that in OE. In other words,
> Image.gz should be included in typeformake. Your patch does not do
> that, and that is something which is taken care by mine.

Surely we should use Image.gz generated by kernel build system and my patch  
doesn't do that. I also think that OE should compress only images that the  
kernel build system doesn't generate.
Sorry my patch won't help.

Best Regards,
Kunihiko Hayashi