[OE-core] KERNEL_IMAGETYPES and Image.gz

[Nicolas Dechesne]

Le ven. 2 juin 2017 à 20:32, Kunihiko Hayashi <
hayashi.kunihiko at socionext.com> a écrit :

>
> 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.


No problem. Can you please review and tes this one then, and provide
feedback?

Thanks!


>
> Best Regards,
> Kunihiko Hayashi
>
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