On Thu Jul 23, 2026 at 2:49 PM CEST, Nora Schiffer via lists.openembedded.org
wrote:
> A similar feature was added in commit 9c8ef2119949 ("kernel-fit-image:
> control kernel section with FIT_LINUX_BIN") and subsequently reverted in
> commit 6eae261b6f52 ("Revert "kernel-fit-image: control kernel section
> with FIT_LINUX_BIN"") due to its incomplete implementation and lack of
> tests. Reintroduce an improved version:
>
> - The FIT_LINUX_BIN variable (which had been left unused) is renamed to
> FIT_KERNEL_FILENAME. It can now actually be used to select a different
> file from DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE. The file will be compressed using
> FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG as part of the FIT image recipe, rather than than
> letting the kernel recipe handle this through
> kernel-fit-extra-artifacts.bbclass.
> - Alternatively, FIT_KERNEL_FILENAME_COMPRESSED can be used to select a
> pre-compressed file from DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE. In this case,
> FIT_KERNEL_COMP_ALG only controls the "compression" field of the
> generated FIT image.
> - To preserve backwards compatibility, FIT_KERNEL_FILENAME_COMPRESSED
> defaults to "linux.bin". As a special case, the compression algorithm
> will be read from "linux_comp" for linux.bin. This behavior is
> considered deprecated and relying on it results in a warning.
> - Add tests.
>
> To resolve the new deprecation warning, it is usually sufficient to set
> KERNEL_IMAGETYPE to the desired type ("Image" on many archs) and set
> FIT_KERNEL_FILENAME to the same value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nora Schiffer <[email protected]>
> ---
Hi Nora,
Thanks for your patch.
It looks like the test_fit_image_kernel_filename selftest is failing on
arm hosts:
2026-07-24 21:31:27,684 - oe-selftest - INFO -
fitimage.KernelFitImageRecipeTests.test_fit_image_kernel_filename
(subunit.RemotedTestCase)
2026-07-24 21:31:27,685 - oe-selftest - INFO - ... FAIL
...
ERROR: linux-yocto-fitimage-1.0-r0 do_compile: Error executing a python
function in exec_func_python() autogenerated:
The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
File: 'exec_func_python() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>
0001:
*** 0002:do_compile(d)
0003:
File:
'/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/classes-recipe/kernel-fit-image.bbclass',
lineno: 129, function: do_compile
0125:
0126: elif kernel_compressed:
0127: kernel_path = os.path.join(kernel_deploydir,
kernel_compressed)
0128: kernel_name = os.path.basename(kernel_compressed)
*** 0129: shutil.copyfile(kernel_path, kernel_name)
0130:
0131: # FIT_KERNEL_FILENAME or FIT_KERNEL_FILENAME_COMPRESSED was set
0132: if kernel_name:
0133: root_node.fitimage_emit_section_kernel("kernel-1",
kernel_name, kernel_comp_alg,
File: '/usr/lib/python3.14/shutil.py', lineno: 313, function: copyfile
0309:
0310: if not follow_symlinks and _islink(src):
0311: os.symlink(os.readlink(src), dst)
0312: else:
*** 0313: with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
0314: try:
0315: with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
0316: # macOS
0317: if _HAS_FCOPYFILE:
Exception: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-1142023/tmp/deploy/images/qemuarm64/bzImage'
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/4420
Can you have a look at the issue?
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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