From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
Cc: isar-users <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Install kernel via replaceable recipe
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:40:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a165c9e-a9fb-9f48-9aca-4afba2a53fa1@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180130113137.7fb21334@mmd1pvb1c.ad001.siemens.net>
On 2018-01-30 11:31, Henning Schild wrote:
> This one looks useful but i would like to see it in context with the
> actual replacement kernel.
>
True. Spoiler: it works as designed. I'm just not yet done with getting
the internals of that linux-custom.inc ready, but switching recipes via
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel works fine.
> Am Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:34:45 +0100
> schrieb "Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
>
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>
>> This simplifies the common task of using a custom kernel instead of
>> the pre-selected debian variant: Move the kernel installation into a
>> dummy dpkg-raw recipe that only has the kernel package as dependency.
>>
>> Which recipe is used for providing the kernel can now be selected via
>> the well-know PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel, just like in OE.
>>
>> The kernel package name is communicated from the target multiconfig
>> file to the linux-debian recipe via the DEBIAN_KERNEL variable.
>>
>> Based on an idea of Henning Schild.
>
> Really ? I don't remember.
Yours was at least the idea to use a meta package.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - install kernel meta package from local repo, instead of trying to
>> pre-install it from the upstream one
>> (I swear I tested this and it worked, but I have no idea how it
>> could...)
>>
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-jessie.conf | 2 +-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-stretch.conf | 3 ++-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-jessie.conf | 2 +-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-stretch.conf | 3 ++-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-wheezy.conf | 2 +-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-jessie.conf | 2 +-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-stretch.conf | 3 ++-
>> meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/rpi-jessie.conf | 3 ++-
>> meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb | 7 ++++++-
>> meta-isar/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-debian.bb | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 10 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 meta-isar/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-debian.bb
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-jessie.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-jessie.conf index
>> 51d39b6..e49751f 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-jessie.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-jessie.conf @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>> MACHINE ?= "qemuamd64" DISTRO ?= "debian-jessie"
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "amd64"
>>
>> -IMAGE_PREINSTALL += "linux-image-amd64"
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-amd64"
>>
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "sda"
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-stretch.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-stretch.conf index
>> c59876a..f3dcd3a 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-stretch.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-stretch.conf @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "amd64"
>> IMAGE_PREINSTALL += " \
>> init \
>> - linux-image-amd64 \
>> "
>>
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-amd64"
>> +
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "sda"
>>
>> QEMU_ARCH ?= "x86_64"
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-jessie.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-jessie.conf index
>> ed84c6c..50a27f5 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-jessie.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-jessie.conf @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>> MACHINE ?= "qemuarm" DISTRO ?= "debian-jessie"
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "armhf"
>>
>> -IMAGE_PREINSTALL += "linux-image-armmp"
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-armmp"
>>
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "vda"
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-stretch.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-stretch.conf index
>> 1cce97a..9b99fb0 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-stretch.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-stretch.conf @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "armhf"
>> IMAGE_PREINSTALL += " \
>> init \
>> - linux-image-armmp \
>> "
>>
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-armmp"
>> +
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "vda"
>>
>> QEMU_ARCH ?= "arm"
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-wheezy.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-wheezy.conf index
>> 38ea191..ab163a2 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-wheezy.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm-wheezy.conf @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>> MACHINE ?= "qemuarm" DISTRO ?= "debian-wheezy"
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "armhf"
>>
>> -IMAGE_PREINSTALL += "linux-image-vexpress"
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-vexpress"
>>
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "mmcblk0"
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-jessie.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-jessie.conf index
>> d589661..e3df61d 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-jessie.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-jessie.conf @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>> MACHINE ?= "qemui386" DISTRO ?= "debian-jessie"
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "i386"
>>
>> -IMAGE_PREINSTALL += "linux-image-686-pae"
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-686-pae"
>>
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "sda"
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-stretch.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-stretch.conf index
>> 40239e4..344783e 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-stretch.conf +++
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemui386-stretch.conf @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
>> DISTRO_ARCH ?= "i386"
>> IMAGE_PREINSTALL += " \
>> init \
>> - linux-image-686-pae \
>> "
>>
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-686-pae"
>> +
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "sda"
>>
>> QEMU_ARCH ?= "i386"
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/rpi-jessie.conf
>> b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/rpi-jessie.conf index d1dd9d9..cfbeb3a
>> 100644 --- a/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/rpi-jessie.conf
>> +++ b/meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/rpi-jessie.conf
>> @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ IMAGE_PREINSTALL += " \
>> iproute2 \
>> iputils-ping \
>> isc-dhcp-client \
>> - linux-image-rpi-rpfv \
>> lrzsz \
>> net-tools \
>> netcat-openbsd \
>> @@ -31,4 +30,6 @@ IMAGE_PREINSTALL += " \
>> vim \
>> "
>>
>> +DEBIAN_KERNEL ?= "linux-image-rpi-rpfv"
>> +
>> ROOTFS_DEV ?= "mmcblk0p2"
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb
>> b/meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb index
>> e359ac3..2f03cd1 100644 ---
>> a/meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb +++
>> b/meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb @@ -18,12 +18,17
>> @@ PV = "1.0"
>> inherit image
>>
>> -DEPENDS += "${IMAGE_INSTALL}"
>> +PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-debian"
>> +
>> +DEPENDS += "${IMAGE_INSTALL} \
>> + virtual/kernel"
>>
>> IMAGE_PREINSTALL += "apt \
>> dbus \
>> localepurge"
>>
>> +IMAGE_INSTALL += "${@d.getVar("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel",
>> True)}" +
>> WORKDIR = "${TMPDIR}/work/${DISTRO}-${DISTRO_ARCH}/${PN}"
>>
>> do_rootfs[dirs] = "${WORKDIR}/hooks_multistrap"
>> diff --git a/meta-isar/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-debian.bb
>> b/meta-isar/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-debian.bb new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..21d20c2
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/meta-isar/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-debian.bb
>> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
>> +# Debian kernel pseudo package
>> +#
>> +# This software is a part of ISAR.
>> +# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2018
>> +
>> +DESCRIPTION = "Prebuilt Debian kernel"
>> +MAINTAINER = "ISAR project"
>
> Please include an email address here.
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-f-maintainer
Pseudo email or the isar mailing list?
Jan
--
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-30 9:34 Jan Kiszka
2018-01-30 10:31 ` Henning Schild
2018-01-30 10:40 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2018-01-30 10:49 ` Alexander Smirnov
2018-01-30 10:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2018-01-30 11:06 ` Alexander Smirnov
2018-01-30 11:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2018-01-30 12:06 ` Alexander Smirnov
2018-01-30 12:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2018-01-30 12:57 ` Alexander Smirnov
2018-02-01 16:20 ` Jan Kiszka
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