[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH V3 1/4] linux-raspberrypi: rpi-mkimage is no longer needed

[Paul Barker]

Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi firmware can directly handle kernel images
which use device tree. The modifications made by rpi-mkimage are no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk>
---
 recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc | 20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
index 6133b02..6184402 100644
--- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
+++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
@@ -35,13 +35,6 @@ python __anonymous () {
     kerneltype = d.getVar('KERNEL_IMAGETYPE', True)
     kerneldt = get_dts(d, d.getVar('LINUX_VERSION', True))
     d.setVar("KERNEL_DEVICETREE", kerneldt)
-
-    # Add dependency to 'rpi-mkimage-native' package only if RPi bootloader is used with DT-enable kernel
-    if kerneldt:
-        if kerneltype != 'uImage' and len(kerneldt.strip()) > 1:
-            depends = d.getVar("DEPENDS", True)
-            depends = "%s rpi-mkimage-native" % depends
-            d.setVar("DEPENDS", depends)
 }
 
 do_kernel_configme_prepend() {
@@ -62,17 +55,6 @@ do_deploy_append() {
     echo "${CMDLINE}${PITFT_PARAMS}" > ${DEPLOYDIR}/bcm2835-bootfiles/cmdline.txt
 }
 
-do_rpiboot_mkimage() {
-    if test "x${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}" != "xuImage" ; then
-        if test -n "${KERNEL_DEVICETREE}"; then
-            # Add RPi bootloader trailer to kernel image to enable DeviceTree support
-            for type in ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPES} ; do
-                ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/mkknlimg --dtok ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type ${KERNEL_OUTPUT_DIR}/$type
-            done
-        fi
-    fi
-}
-
 do_bundle_initramfs_append() {
     if [ ! -z "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}" -a x"${INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE}" = x1 ]; then
         if test "x${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}" != "xuImage" ; then
@@ -85,5 +67,3 @@ do_bundle_initramfs_append() {
         fi
     fi
 }
-
-addtask rpiboot_mkimage before do_install after do_compile
-- 
2.1.4