[Openembedded-users] compiling a uImage or a zImage

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Charles Krinke
<charles.krinke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have a working OE installation that will bitbake linux and it creates a vmlinux and a fitImage for a PPC8323. I am puzzling over how to create (or modify) a recipe to make a uImage and a zImage.
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Have a look at openembedded/classes/kernel.bbclass

If not defined then the variable KERNEL_IMAGETYPE will be zImage and
kernel is built for that:
KERNEL_IMAGETYPE ?= "zImage"

You can change that by using something like this in your conf chain:
KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"

I get the useful stuff from kernel_do_compile() in kernel.bbclass
which ultimately invokes:
oe_runmake ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}"

atl