missing zImage support

[Fathi Boudra]

l-i-t is assuming U-Boot is the bootloader and make uImage (make_uImage) unconditionally.

It's making zImage unusable with l-i-t. Here's a couple of use-cases:
- u-boot bootz command to load zImage
- uefi loading zImage

[Georgy Redkozubov (gesha)]

It's almost not possible to detect kernel image type during runtime. The option is to add another variable to hwpack like 'kernel_image_type' and if it is not set or set to 'uImage' we just do the same as nowdays, if it is set to 'zImage' we copy 'kernel_file' to the bootdisk as 'zImage'.

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

This is requirement for us to test UEFI stub on v7

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

If you can provide an update on whether this can be accomplished this week or not, I would greatly appreciate it as it impacts some decisions in LEG.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Hi Anmar,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Anmar Oueja <email address hidden> wrote:
> If you can provide an update on whether this can be accomplished this
> week or not, I would greatly appreciate it as it impacts some decisions
> in LEG.

Georgy is away today, he should be back tomorrow.
Fathi, did you try Georgy branch?

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[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Update on the issue: the branch linked here from Georgy has all the necessary code, it only need to be tested.
We are in the process of migrating linaro-image-tools over to git, and would like to merge as much code as possible.

Did anybody try the code? I do not have a handy example to try, otherwise I could do it.

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

Riku, any updates?