Here is how I have fixed the problem (attached patch). There was an if
statement with a TODO that was not implemented, so I just took it out.
>From 20cea9a9506575a40a439766fb3e9d4bbb7587cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lechner <da...@lechnology.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:13:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] remove kernel != kfile check in boot_kernel_path handler.
This only applies to Method: generic.
Old behavior:
If the db entry specifies Boot-Kernel-Path, one of Dtb-Append, Machine-Id
or U-Boot-Kernel-Address must be specified which changes the value of $kernel.
When checking what to do wht Boot-Kernel-Path, the script checks to see if
$kernel was changed from the original value ($kfile). If it did not change,
it does nothing. There is a TODO comment about handling symlinks, but this
does not make sense since this is the generic method, not the symlink method.
New behavior:
The check to see if $kernel changed is removed. As long as Boot-Kernel-Path
is specified, flash-kernel will copy the kernel to the specified path.
Use case:
On Raspberry Pi, the boot loader uses the vmlinux-* file directly, but it
needs to be renamed to kernel.img, which flash-kernel should be doing.
---
functions | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index a7ff6de..34e7536 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -684,13 +684,7 @@ case "$method" in
if [ -n "$boot_kernel_path" ]; then
boot_kernel_path="$boot_mnt_dir/$boot_kernel_path"
# don't mv the original kernel
- if [ "$kernel" != "$kfile" ]; then
- backup_and_install "$kernel" \
- "$boot_kernel_path"
- else
- # TODO add support for kernel symlink
- :
- fi
+ backup_and_install "$kernel" "$boot_kernel_path"
elif [ -n "$kmtd" ]; then
flash_kernel "$tmpdir/uImage" "$kmtd" ""
rm -f "$tmpdir/uImage"
--
1.9.1
