[meta-virtualization] recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb: change, hardcoded vmlinuz to the KERNEL_IMAGETYPE variable

Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 15:09:21 PDT 2019


On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 2:23 PM Norbert Kaminski
<norbert.kaminski at 3mdeb.com> wrote:
>
> Why is vmlinuz hard-coded in the syslinux.cfg? Could it be replaced by
> the KERNEL_IMAGETYPE?
>

I'm guessing it just hasn't been something that others have wanted to configure.

The patch looks ok to me. I assume those that are currently relying on
/vmlinuz will have that already as their kernel build type (since it
is being built).

I'll wait a few days to see if anyone objects.

Bruce


>  From 450becb15192a3541b7a3d55ace75a1929d15add Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Asiderr <norbert.kaminski at 3mdeb.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:50:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb: change
> hardcoded vmlinuz to the variable
>
> Signed-off-by: Norbert Kaminski <norbert.kaminski at 3mdeb.com>
> ---
>   recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb
> b/recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb
> index c39d378..740ef1f 100644
> --- a/recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb
> +++ b/recipes-extended/images/xen-image-minimal.bb
> @@ -61,6 +61,6 @@ build_syslinux_cfg () {
>       echo "PROMPT 1" >> ${SYSLINUX_CFG}
>       echo "LABEL boot" >> ${SYSLINUX_CFG}
>       echo "  KERNEL mboot.c32" >> ${SYSLINUX_CFG}
> -    echo "  APPEND /xen.gz ${SYSLINUX_XEN_ARGS} --- /vmlinuz
> ${SYSLINUX_KERNEL_ARGS} --- /initrd" >> ${SYSLINUX_CFG}
> +    echo "  APPEND /xen.gz ${SYSLINUX_XEN_ARGS} ---
> /${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ${SYSLINUX_KERNEL_ARGS} --- /initrd" >> ${SYSLINUX_CFG}
>   }
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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