[oe] Building u-boot images in both kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() and linux.inc:do_compile_append()

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Sat Nov 29 21:10:00 UTC 2008


On 29-11-08 22:05, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 29-11-08 20:49, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Building u-boot images using mkimage is present in both
>> kernel.bbclass:do_deploy() as well as in
>> linux.inc:do_compile_append().
>>
>> Which one has preference in the long run, and why?
>
> The one in do_deploy has more fancy features IIRC, but that should be
> moved to do_compile, since we want to package the fancy one :)

I just checked kernel.bbclass and the uImage generation needs to get 
moved to do_compile, but the copying to deploy/ should be left in do_deploy.

regards,

Koen


> The uImage that the kernel makefile generated should _not_ be used,
> since in OE we generally know better which start & load address to use
> and which compression method works best for us. Incidentally RMK agrees
> with me on that for a change :)





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