1 files changed, 23 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index ca1426cd88..ba4bc607b0 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -437,26 +437,32 @@ MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME ?= "${MODULE_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.tgz"
 MODULE_TARBALL_SYMLINK_NAME ?= "modules-${MACHINE}.tgz"
 MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY ?= "1"
 
+uboot_prep_kimage() {
+        if test -e arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux ; then
+                vmlinux_path="arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux"
+                linux_suffix=""
+                linux_comp="none"
+        else
+                vmlinux_path="vmlinux"
+                linux_suffix=".gz"
+                linux_comp="gzip"
+        fi
+
+        ${OBJCOPY} -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S "${vmlinux_path}" linux.bin
+
+        if [ "${linux_comp}" != "none" ] ; then
+                rm -f linux.bin
+                gzip -9 linux.bin
+                mv -f "linux.bin${linux_suffix}" linux.bin
+        fi
+
+        echo "${linux_comp}"
+}
+
 do_uboot_mkimage() {
         if test "x${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}" = "xuImage" ; then 
                 if test "x${KEEPUIMAGE}" != "xyes" ; then
-                        if test -e arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux ; then
-                                vmlinux_path="arch/${ARCH}/boot/compressed/vmlinux"
-                                linux_suffix=""
-                                linux_comp="none"
-                        else
-                                vmlinux_path="vmlinux"
-                                linux_suffix=".gz"
-                                linux_comp="gzip"
-                        fi
-
-                        ${OBJCOPY} -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S "${vmlinux_path}" linux.bin
-
-                        if [ "${linux_comp}" != "none" ] ; then
-                                rm -f linux.bin
-                                gzip -9 linux.bin
-                                mv -f "linux.bin${linux_suffix}" linux.bin
-                        fi
+                        uboot_prep_kimage
 
                         ENTRYPOINT=${UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT}
                         if test -n "${UBOOT_ENTRYSYMBOL}"; then