[OE-core] [PATCH] archiver.bbclass: do checkout for kernel

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Jian Liu <jian.liu at windriver.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All kernels I list bellow will perform do_fetch(), do_unpack(),
> do_kernel_checkout().
> do_unpack() will put a bare git repo under WORKDIR and then
> do_kernel_checkout()
> will move the bare repo to bitbake/tmp/work-share/<board
> name>/kernel-source(value of variable S),
> then performing "git checkout".
>
> So do_ar_original must wait until do_kernel_checkout() is completed and then
> make tarball using the code under S.
> Do I make that clear?
>
>
> You refer to kernels other than linux-yocto. Can you give me an example?
> I do not know how to build such kernel.

Add another BSP layer e.g. meta-raspberrypi to your bblayers.conf
and then MACHINE=raspberrypi2

and see what you are trying to do still holds.

>
> Thanks!
> Jian
>
>
> On 2015年11月04日 13:57, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 1:22 AM, Jian Liu<jian.liu at windriver.com>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> >Hi,
>>> >
>>> >I test linux-dummy linux-yocto-dev linux-yocto-rt linux-yocto-tiny and
>>> > the result is as follows,
>>> >
>>> >linux-dummy: this package just meets some dependency and there is no
>>> > source code for it.
>>> >                      The patch does not impact it
>>> >linux-yocto, linux-yocto-dev, linux-yocto-rt, linux-yocto-tiny: The S
>>> > variable of all packages is set to STAGING_KERNEK_DIR.
>>> >                       do_fetch and do_unpack just leave a bare git repo
>>> > of kernel and do_kernel_checkout gets the source code
>>> >
>>
>> does it cover the case when kernel is not linux-yocto was basic question,
>> I am not clear if thats covered in any of above
>>
>>> >Thanks!
>
>