Hi All,

Had a question about kernel-fitimage.bbclass. I am enabling the fitimage using KERNEL_CLASSES += "kernel-fitimage" and KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "fitImage".
It works and I see fitimage in my deploy directory without any issues.

However when I enable initramfs along with fitimage, using INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "core-image-minimal" and INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE = "1", kernel build fails.
It's mostly from kernel.bbclass because it tries to deploy fitimage https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass#L639
Am I using this featurecorrectly? anyone else facing same issue?

Below is a initial patch which I did to get me across the error, but I am not sure if this is the correct answer.

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 756707a..d5342b4 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -208,14 +208,16 @@ do_bundle_initramfs () {
# Backing up kernel image relies on its type(regular file or symbolic link)
tmp_path=""
for type in ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES} ; do
- if [ -h ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ] ; then
- linkpath=`readlink -n ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type`
- realpath=`readlink -fn ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type`
- mv -f $realpath $realpath.bak
- tmp_path=$tmp_path" "$type"#"$linkpath"#"$realpath
- elif [ -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ]; then
- mv -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type.bak
- tmp_path=$tmp_path" "$type"##"
+ if [ "$type" != "fitImage" ]; then
+ if [ -h ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ] ; then
+ linkpath=`readlink -n ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type`
+ realpath=`readlink -fn ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type`
+ mv -f $realpath $realpath.bak
+ tmp_path=$tmp_path" "$type"#"$linkpath"#"$realpath
+ elif [ -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ]; then
+ mv -f ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type.bak
+ tmp_path=$tmp_path" "$type"##"
+ fi
fi
done
use_alternate_initrd=CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE_NAME}.cpio
@@ -627,8 +629,10 @@ MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY ?= "1"

kernel_do_deploy() {
for type in ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES} ; do
- base_name=${type}-${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}
- install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type} ${DEPLOYDIR}/${base_name}.bin
+ if [ "$type" != "fitImage" ]; then
+ base_name=${type}-${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}
+ install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type} ${DEPLOYDIR}/${base_name}.bin
+ fi
done
if [ ${MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY} = "1" ] && (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' .config); then
mkdir -p ${D}/lib
@@ -637,21 +641,25 @@ kernel_do_deploy() {
fi

for type in ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES} ; do
- base_name=${type}-${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}
- symlink_name=${type}-${KERNEL_IMAGE_SYMLINK_NAME}
- ln -sf ${base_name}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${symlink_name}.bin
- ln -sf ${base_name}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${type}
+ if [ "$type" != "fitImage" ]; then
+ base_name=${type}-${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}
+ symlink_name=${type}-${KERNEL_IMAGE_SYMLINK_NAME}
+ ln -sf ${base_name}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${symlink_name}.bin
+ ln -sf ${base_name}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${type}
+ fi
done

cd ${B}
# Update deploy directory
for type in ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES} ; do
- if [ -e "${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type}.initramfs" ]; then
- echo "Copying deploy ${type} kernel-initramfs image and setting up links..."
- initramfs_base_name=${type}-${INITRAMFS_BASE_NAME}
- initramfs_symlink_name=${type}-initramfs-${MACHINE}
- install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type}.initramfs ${DEPLOYDIR}/${initramfs_base_name}.bin
- ln -sf ${initramfs_base_name}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${initramfs_symlink_name}.bin
+ if [ "$type" != "fitImage" ]; then
+ if [ -e "${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type}.initramfs" ]; then
+ echo "Copying deploy ${type} kernel-initramfs image and setting up links..."
+ initramfs_base_name=${type}-${INITRAMFS_BASE_NAME}
+ initramfs_symlink_name=${type}-initramfs-${MACHINE}
+ install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/${type}.initramfs ${DEPLOYDIR}/${initramfs_base_name}.bin
+ ln -sf ${initramfs_base_name}.bin ${DEPLOYDIR}/${initramfs_symlink_name}.bin
+ fi
fi
done
}

Thanks,
Manju