On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:20 AM Matthias Klein
<matthias.klein@optimeas.de> wrote:

Hello,



I would like to create a linux-%.bbappend file and add the following to it, for example:



KERNEL_FEATURES:append = " features/overlayfs/overlayfs.scc".



Works also for all kernels which use the advanced metadata. Unfortunately it leads to an error with a kernel which uses a defconfig.

I would only enable the above line if the kernel uses the advanced metadata. Is this possible?

Presumably, the kernel recipe you are using inherits kernel-yocto, and
that whatever recipe is using a defconfig isn't also putting the
kernel-cache into the SRC_URI ? (or that kernel_features append
wouldn't be an actual error). So we can run with that assumption.

One option is to allow dangling kernel features, and you'll get a
warning from a the missing feature
(KERNEL_DANGLING_FEATURES_WARN_ONLY). But of course, you'll get a
warning .. which may or may not be a bad thing :)

Another is to make that append conditional based on something you can
test. i.e. test for kernel-cache in the SRC_URI, and if present, do
the append. Or you could test for the defconfig in the SRC_URI and
don't do the append. There may be other options for this, but without
all the details of the recipes, I can't say for sure.

I have a few variations of that theme in meta-virtualization, since
there's a broad range of kernel types supported
(https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-virtualization/tree/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_virtualization.inc).

Cheers,

Bruce

Many greetings,

Matthias

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Hello Bruce,

Another is to make that append conditional based on something you can test. i.e. test for kernel-cache in the SRC_URI, and if present, do the append. Or you could test for the defconfig in the SRC_URI and don't do the append. There may be other options for this, but without all the details of the recipes, I can't say for sure.
I have a few variations of that theme in meta-virtualization, since there's a broad range of kernel types supported (https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-virtualization/tree/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_virtualization.inc).

I chose the variant based on SRC_URI, but used KERNEL_CONFIG_URI because I got endless recursion between SRC_URI and KERNEL_FEATURES in the kernel recipe I use.
I ended up with this function:

def insert_if_kernel_cache_available(feature, d):
import re
if d.getVar('KERNEL_CONFIG_URI'):
config_uri = d.getVar('KERNEL_CONFIG_URI')
kernel_cache = re.search("kernel-cache", config_uri)
if kernel_cache:
return feature
return ""

KERNEL_FEATURES:append = "${@insert_if_kernel_cache_available(' features/overlayfs/overlayfs.scc', d)}"

Many greetings,
Matthias