compulab-pxa270 2.6.16: remove image creation code as it does not work on all distros

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/packages/linux/compulab-pxa270_2.6.16.bb b/packages/linux/compulab-pxa270_2.6.16.bb
index 928bde8f6a..6e09281546 100644
--- a/packages/linux/compulab-pxa270_2.6.16.bb
+++ b/packages/linux/compulab-pxa270_2.6.16.bb
@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Linux kernel for the Compulab PXA270 system"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 PR = "r3"
 
-# coreutils is required for the stat command which is used
-# to create the programming images used with USB.  Version
-# >= 6.0 is required.
-DEPENDS = "coreutils-native"
-
 # Note, the compulab package contains a binary NAND driver that is not
 # EABI compatible
 
@@ -39,15 +34,18 @@ do_deploy() {
         install -m 0644 arch/${ARCH}/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ${KNAME}
 	# Create an image file that has the size prepended (used by cm-x270 BL)
 	# The following can only be done on a little endian machine
-	size=$(stat --printf=%s ${KNAME})
-	size_=$(printf '\%03o'\
-	$((size & 0x000000FF))\
-	$((size>>8 & 0x000000FF))\
-	$((size>>16 & 0x000000FF))\
-	$((size>>24 & 0x000000FF)))
-	size_=${size_}'\c'
-	echo -e $size_ > ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}.img
-	cat ${KNAME} >> ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}.img
+	# the following does not work on all computers as it requires a recent
+	# version of coreutils (>= 6.0).  We will eventually replace the following
+	# with python code.
+	#size=$(stat --printf=%s ${KNAME})
+	#size_=$(printf '\%03o'\
+	#$((size & 0x000000FF))\
+	#$((size>>8 & 0x000000FF))\
+	#$((size>>16 & 0x000000FF))\
+	#$((size>>24 & 0x000000FF)))
+	#size_=${size_}'\c'
+	#echo -e $size_ > ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}.img
+	#cat ${KNAME} >> ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}.img
 }
 
 do_deploy[dirs] = "${S}"