linaro-media-create fails for linaro-m release on panda

[Dave Martin]

linaro-image-tools r288

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/hwpack_linaro-bsp-omap4_20101109-1_armel_unsupported.tar.gz
http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/headless/final/linaro-m-headless-tar-20101108-2.tar.gz

See the attached log for details of the actual failure.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The affected hwpack contains a kernel named '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-903-omap4', which obviously does not match the current pattern. Looks like another special-casing for 10.11?

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

hwpack_linaro-bsp-omap4_20101109-1_armel_unsupported.tar.gz used pkgs/linux-image-2.6.35-903-omap4_2.6.35-903.17_armel.deb (built from linux-ti-omap4) which ships /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-903-omap4.

We're expecting to match a -omap filename instead, because that's what the omap3 hwpack uses.

Did we release a mainline-based hwpack supporting panda in 10.11?

[Jamie Bennett (jamiebennett)]

No, we only released a BSP panda kernel for 10.11:

http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/hwpack_linaro-bsp-omap4_20101109-1_armel_unsupported.tar.gz

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

I think we could reuse the existing hook we added to fix bug 697824. That way we can change the suffix at runtime when the kernel minor version is < 36. Would that work?

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Maybe we should just glob on omap/omap4 like to locate x-loader?

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

(I'm worried that there might be omap4 in natty)

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

That may well be the most reasonable alternative, then.

IIUC, this means changing the panda config, which currently uses the
file matching vmlinuz-*-linaro-omap to use the file matching
vmlinuz-*-omap* (and similar for the initrd).

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

See:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mabac/linaro-image-tools/bug-744857/+merge/55492
for a way we could still support this