1 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass
index 92ede6a3aa..8494c16787 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass
@@ -158,22 +158,10 @@ do_kernel_checkout() {
                 mkdir -p ${S}
                 
                 # We can fix up the kernel repository even if it wasn't a bare clone.
-                # If KMETA is defined, the branch must exist, but a machine branch
-                # can be missing since it may be created later by the tools.
                 mv ${WORKDIR}/git/.git ${S}
                 rm -rf ${WORKDIR}/git/
                 cd ${S}
-                if [ -n "${KMETA}" ]; then
-                        git branch -a | grep -q ${KMETA}
-                        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-                                echo "ERROR. The branch '${KMETA}' is required and was not"
-                                echo "found. Ensure that the SRC_URI points to a valid linux-yocto"
-                                echo "kernel repository"
-                                exit 1
-                        fi
-                fi
-        fi
-        if [ -d "${WORKDIR}/git/" ] && [ ! -d "${WORKDIR}/git/.git" ]; then
+        elif [ -d "${WORKDIR}/git/" ] && [ ! -d "${WORKDIR}/git/.git" ]; then
                 # we build out of {S}, so ensure that ${S} is clean and present
                 rm -rf ${S}
                 mkdir -p ${S}/.git
@@ -182,9 +170,29 @@ do_kernel_checkout() {
                 rm -rf ${WORKDIR}/git/
                 cd ${S} 
                 git config core.bare false
+        else
+                # We have no git repository at all. To support low bandwidth options
+                # for building the kernel, we'll just convert the tree to a git repo
+                # and let the rest of the process work unchanged
+                cd ${S}
+                git init
+                git add .
+                git commit -q -m "baseline commit: creating repo for ${PN}-${PV}"
         fi
         # end debare
 
+        # If KMETA is defined, the branch must exist, but a machine branch
+        # can be missing since it may be created later by the tools.
+        if [ -n "${KMETA}" ]; then
+                git branch -a | grep -q ${KMETA}
+                if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+                        echo "ERROR. The branch '${KMETA}' is required and was not"
+                        echo "found. Ensure that the SRC_URI points to a valid linux-yocto"
+                        echo "kernel repository"
+                        exit 1
+                fi
+        fi
+
         # convert any remote branches to local tracking ones
         for i in `git branch -a | grep remotes | grep -v HEAD`; do
                 b=`echo $i | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed 's%remotes/origin/%%'`;