3 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index e7e2cb3963..dcf8bae042 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -484,15 +484,18 @@ python split_kernel_packages () {
 }
 
 # Many scripts want to look in arch/$arch/boot for the bootable
-# image. This poses a problem for vmlinux based booting. This 
-# task arranges to have vmlinux appear in the normalized directory
-# location.
-do_kernel_link_vmlinux() {
+# image. This poses a problem for vmlinux and vmlinuz based
+# booting. This task arranges to have vmlinux and vmlinuz appear
+# in the normalized directory location.
+do_kernel_link_images() {
         if [ ! -d "${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot" ]; then
                 mkdir ${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot
         fi
         cd ${B}/arch/${ARCH}/boot
         ln -sf ../../../vmlinux
+        if [ -f ../../../vmlinuz ]; then
+                ln -sf ../../../vmlinuz
+        fi
 }
 
 do_strip() {
@@ -522,7 +525,7 @@ do_strip() {
 }
 do_strip[dirs] = "${B}"
 
-addtask do_strip before do_sizecheck after do_kernel_link_vmlinux
+addtask do_strip before do_sizecheck after do_kernel_link_images
 
 # Support checking the kernel size since some kernels need to reside in partitions
 # with a fixed length or there is a limit in transferring the kernel to memory
diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index dcc324c6cc..c0025f5a76 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ do_install_ptest_base[doc] = "Copies the runtime test suite files from the compi
 do_kernel_checkout[doc] = "Checks out source/meta branches for a linux-yocto style kernel"
 do_kernel_configcheck[doc] = "Validates the kernel configuration for a linux-yocto style kernel"
 do_kernel_configme[doc] = "Assembles the kernel configuration for a linux-yocto style kernel"
-do_kernel_link_vmlinux[doc] = "Creates a symbolic link in arch/$arch/boot for vmlinux kernel images"
+do_kernel_link_images[doc] = "Creates a symbolic link in arch/$arch/boot for vmlinux and vmlinuz kernel images"
 do_listtasks[doc] = "Lists all defined tasks for a target"
 do_menuconfig[doc] = "Runs 'make menuconfig' for the kernel"
 do_package[doc] = "Analyzes the content of the holding area and splits it into subsets based on available packages and files"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
index bd91570442..0af9f8cb1a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
@@ -53,6 +53,6 @@ do_install_append(){
 }
 
 # extra tasks
-addtask kernel_link_vmlinux after do_compile before do_install
+addtask kernel_link_images after do_compile before do_install
 addtask validate_branches before do_patch after do_kernel_checkout
 addtask kernel_configcheck after do_configure before do_compile