[yocto] Questions about the name of qemu bin file for different archs

[Ke, Liping]

Hi, Bruce

Lost this mail and finally found it.

Thanks for your detailed explanation.


And so, for easily fetching those qemu images, we need to make sure that
these symbol-link must be created according to the defined naming convention in the build-result-repository.
I will check this problem firstly.

Thanks & Regards,
criping

> 
> On 10-12-14 02:40 AM, Ke, Liping wrote:
> > Hi, Jessica
> >
> > I found qemu bin file name convention is different for different
> archs, for example, for x86, it is bzImage-qemuXXX.
> > For arm, it is zImage-qemuXXX. My question is why it is bzXXX or zXXX,
> is there any reason of such naming convention?
> 
> The leading part of the image name is dependent
> on the type of kernel we are booting.
> 
> ]> grep KERNEL_IMAGETYPE qemu*
> qemuarm.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage"
> qemumips.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux"
> qemumips-variant.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux"
> qemuppc.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage"
> qemux86-64.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "bzImage"
> qemux86.conf:KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "bzImage"
> 
> And those are your differences in the name.
> 
> As for why the symlinks may not be created at times, I'm
> not sure.
> 
> >
> > Or I must did name translate for each kind of arch qemu bin file?
> 
> Should be something you can script by checking the
> KERNEL_IMAGETYPE.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce
> 
> >
> >
> > Thanks&  Regards,
> > criping
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