kernel: Make symbol link to vmlinuz in boot directory

Rename do_kernel_link_vmlinux to do_kernel_link_images and make a
symbol link to vmlinuz(if exists) for reference in arch/$arch/boot
directory.

Signen-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index e7e2cb3963ab9bbc6eef6ec1d94ba626a7315afa..dcf8bae0427ef980ad3874bd3d57cc7c5c623105 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -484,15 +484,18 @@ python split_kernel_packages () {
 }
 
 # Many scripts want to look in arch/$arch/boot for the bootable
-# image. This poses a problem for vmlinux based booting. This 
-# task arranges to have vmlinux appear in the normalized directory
-# location.
-do_kernel_link_vmlinux() {
+# image. This poses a problem for vmlinux and vmlinuz based
+# booting. This task arranges to have vmlinux and vmlinuz appear
+# in the normalized directory location.
+do_kernel_link_images() {
        if [ ! -d "${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot" ]; then
                mkdir ${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot
        fi
        cd ${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot
        ln -sf ../../../vmlinux
+       if [ -f ../../../vmlinuz ]; then
+               ln -sf ../../../vmlinuz
+       fi
 }
 
 do_strip() {
@@ -522,7 +525,7 @@ do_strip() {
 }
 do_strip[dirs] = "${B}"
 
-addtask do_strip before do_sizecheck after do_kernel_link_vmlinux
+addtask do_strip before do_sizecheck after do_kernel_link_images
 
 # Support checking the kernel size since some kernels need to reside in partitions
 # with a fixed length or there is a limit in transferring the kernel to memory

diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index dcc324c6ccb75ced38937f5da96c896c902f9f06..c0025f5a7650739c522cb4373e0c5723d79d23f7 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ do_install_ptest_base[doc] = "Copies the runtime test suite files from the compi
 do_kernel_checkout[doc] = "Checks out source/meta branches for a linux-yocto style kernel"
 do_kernel_configcheck[doc] = "Validates the kernel configuration for a linux-yocto style kernel"
 do_kernel_configme[doc] = "Assembles the kernel configuration for a linux-yocto style kernel"
-do_kernel_link_vmlinux[doc] = "Creates a symbolic link in arch/$arch/boot for vmlinux kernel images"
+do_kernel_link_images[doc] = "Creates a symbolic link in arch/$arch/boot for vmlinux and vmlinuz kernel images"
 do_listtasks[doc] = "Lists all defined tasks for a target"
 do_menuconfig[doc] = "Runs 'make menuconfig' for the kernel"
 do_package[doc] = "Analyzes the content of the holding area and splits it into subsets based on available packages and files"

diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
index bd915704422823c61f1313fcb22494ed8b75baa3..0af9f8cb1a0e55f02a723a506b1b9111854d89a9 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ do_install_append(){
 }
 
 # extra tasks
-addtask kernel_link_vmlinux after do_compile before do_install
+addtask kernel_link_images after do_compile before do_install
 addtask validate_branches before do_patch after do_kernel_checkout
 addtask kernel_configcheck after do_configure before do_compile