Dear Larry,

please do not top post / full quote.  Thanks.

In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
>
> I found that the zImage was a byproduct of enabling the QEMU tests in my conf 
> file.
> The default kernel image format is supposed to be uImage.  I think enabling a 
> QEMU
> test overrides that to use zImage kernel format.

You cannot just enable qemu support for an arbitrary MACHINE setting -
you must define your own machine, making sure that you include only
such peripheral support (i. e. drivers) for which emulation under qemu
exists.

> When I first set up ELDK, I examined the conf file to see what options were 
> available.
> I found the option to test the build using QEMU.  I liked that idea, so I 
> enabled it.
> When I did the bitbake for generic-armv5te core-image-basic , it failed 
> because there is
> no recipe for the QEMU test.  Even after I removed that choice in my conf 
> file, bitbake
> was still using the previous kernel format and rootfs format settings left 
> over from
> when I had enabled the QEMU testing.  It was only after I completely wiped 
> out all
> the files in my build directory and started over that bitbake made a uImage 
> kernel and
> not a zImage kernel.

When making any significant changes to the configuration, it is
usually best to throw away the whole build tree and restart from
scratch.

> I had a similar experience later (see my conversations with Detlev) when 
> bitbake did
> not pick up one of my modifications and I had to wipe everything out and 
> start over.

Actually this is the most reliable way to make sure you get what you
configured (which may still be different from what you want).

> I cannot always tell when bitbake is using cached configuration data and when 
> it
> will do a rebuild.  When in doubt, I wipe everything out now.

ACK.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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