[poky] [PATCH] kernel 3.8: routerstationpro: use KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE to test the image

[Andrea Adami]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:20 PM,  <michel.thebeau at windriver.com> wrote:
> From: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau at windriver.com>
>
> routerstationpro is limited to 16mb flash size.  Exceeding that size may
> not be noticed immediately, which we don't want.
>
> "The current latest kernel for the routerstationpro machine is far
> beyond the 16MB of it's flash size [0]. I think it would be good to
> [test if the size of the image is above that size]."
>
> Setting this variable will enable the do_sizecheck task and produce an
> error when the image is too large:
>
> "ERROR: This kernel (size=90230265 > 16777216) is too big for your
> device. Please reduce the size of the kernel by making more of it
> modular."
>
> Taken from commit 83716e40edacfd20dec8ef41f415ad5828d4643b.
>
> [YOCTO #3514]
>
> Signed-off-by: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau at windriver.com>
> ---
>  .../recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend  |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend b/meta-yocto-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> index 479a386..769dcc0 100644
> --- a/meta-yocto-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> +++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> @@ -12,3 +12,6 @@ COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_mpc8315e-rdb = "mpc8315e-rdb"
>  COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_routerstationpro = "routerstationpro"
>  COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_beagleboard = "beagleboard"
>  COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_atom-pc = "atom-pc"
> +
> +# routerstationpro has a flash size of 16mb
> +KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE_append_routerstationpro = "16777216"

Why would it need an _append_ ?
KERNEL_IMAGE_MAXSIZE_routerstationpro = "16777216" should be enough.

And by the way such kernel sizes look really exaggerated.

Regards

Andrea


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