[OE-core] is there OE support for building multi-image/component FIT image files?

Rick Altherr raltherr at google.com
Wed Mar 29 15:30:48 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Rick Altherr wrote:
>
>> kernel-fitimage.bbclass loops through all the DTBs listed in
>> KERNEL_DEVICETREE and adds a FIT section for each one.  It looks like
>> only the first one is put into a config section though.
>
>   maybe i just haven't read far enough, but what value would that
> have? as i read it, "bootm" can either boot based on an actual image
> reference, or a configuration entry. i don't see how you can select
> from among DTBs unless they're referenced in a configuration entry.
>

bootm takes 3 arguments: kernel, initrd, fdt.  Each of those can
reference a specific image within the FIT using
<fit-address>:<image-name> format.

>   can someone clarify this?
>
> rday
>
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