[OE-core] KERNEL_IMAGETYPES and Image.gz

[Kunihiko Hayashi]

On 2017/06/03 4:18, nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org (Nicolas Dechesne) wrote:
> Le ven. 2 juin 2017 ? 20:32, Kunihiko Hayashi <
> hayashi.kunihiko at socionext.com> a ?crit :
>
>>
>> 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?

Yes. I'll try your suggestion and put feedback after the patch mail.

Best Regards,
Kunihiko Hayashi