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

[Jian Liu]

Hi Raj,

I tried meta-rasberrypi with my patch and it works well.
The tasks of the recipe linux-rasberrypi is similar with linux-yocto and 
linux-rasberrypi also inherits linux-yocto.bbclass

I read the codes of archiver and it seems that kernel is recognised by 
"bb.data.inherits_class('kernel-yocto', d)" when kernel needs to be 
handled specially

What do you think?

Thanks!
Jian

On 2015年11月05日 10:22, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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!
>>