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[v2,0/3] kernel-fit-image: allow replacing kernel, handle compression in FIT recipe

Message ID 20260727090601.489155-1-nora.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com
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Nora Schiffer July 27, 2026, 9:05 a.m. UTC 
Add support for building alternative kernel images into a FIT image instead of
using linux.bin. An incomplete solution with a similar goal was added in in
commit 9c8ef2119949 ("kernel-fit-image: control kernel section with
FIT_LINUX_BIN") and subsequently reverted in commit 6eae261b6f52 ("Revert
"kernel-fit-image: control kernel section with FIT_LINUX_BIN"") due to missing
features, lack of tests and the submitter having abandoned their approach.

With the new approach, compression is now either handled as part of the
FIT image (KERNEL_FILENAME) or the image is considered to be compressed already
(KERNEL_FILENAME_COMPRESSED). The option to let the kernel recipe do the
compression and store the result in the image deploydir as linux.bin is
preserved for backwards compatibility, but will result in a deprecation warning.

Our main use case for this is to support building a FIT image with an EFI
application as kernel (with FIT_OS = "efi").


v2: do not hardcode kernel filename to bzImage in
    fitimage.KernelFitImageRecipeTests.test_fit_image_kernel_filename selftest
    to fix build on non-x86 machines in PATCH 2/3


Nora Schiffer (3):
  kernel-uboot: move FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG to image-fitimage.conf
  kernel-fit-image: reintroduce option to replace kernel image
  kernel-fit-extra-artifacts: skip building linux.bin if unneeded

 .../kernel-fit-extra-artifacts.bbclass        |  4 +-
 meta/classes-recipe/kernel-fit-image.bbclass  | 53 ++++++++--
 meta/classes-recipe/kernel-uboot.bbclass      |  3 +-
 meta/conf/image-fitimage.conf                 | 27 +++++-
 meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/fitimage.py      | 96 ++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)