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+# Some of the vars for vm and live image are conflicted, this function
+# is used for fixing the problem.
+def set_live_vm_vars(d, suffix):
+    vars = ['GRUB_CFG', 'SYSLINUX_CFG', 'ROOT', 'LABELS', 'INITRD']
+    for var in vars:
+        var_with_suffix = var + '_' + suffix
+        if d.getVar(var, True):
+            bb.warn('Found potential conflicted var %s, please use %s rather than %s' % \
+                (var, var_with_suffix, var))
+        elif d.getVar(var_with_suffix, True):
+            d.setVar(var, d.getVar(var_with_suffix, True))
+
+
+EFI = "${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "efi", "1", "0", d)}"
+EFI_PROVIDER ?= "grub-efi"
+EFI_CLASS = "${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "efi", "${EFI_PROVIDER}", "", d)}"
+
+# Include legacy boot if MACHINE_FEATURES includes "pcbios" or if it does not
+# contain "efi". This way legacy is supported by default if neither is
+# specified, maintaining the original behavior.
+def pcbios(d):
+    pcbios = bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "pcbios", "1", "0", d)
+    if pcbios == "0":
+        pcbios = bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "efi", "0", "1", d)
+    return pcbios
+
+PCBIOS = "${@pcbios(d)}"
+PCBIOS_CLASS = "${@['','syslinux'][d.getVar('PCBIOS', True) == '1']}"
+
+inherit ${EFI_CLASS}
+inherit ${PCBIOS_CLASS}
+
+KERNEL_IMAGETYPE ??= "bzImage"
+
+populate_kernel() {
+	dest=$1
+	install -d $dest
+
+	# Install bzImage, initrd, and rootfs.img in DEST for all loaders to use.
+	if [ -e ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ]; then
+		install -m 0644 ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} $dest/vmlinuz
+	fi
+
+	# initrd is made of concatenation of multiple filesystem images
+	if [ -n "${INITRD}" ]; then
+		rm -f $dest/initrd
+		for fs in ${INITRD}
+		do
+			if [ -s "$fs" ]; then
+				cat $fs >> $dest/initrd
+			else
+				bbfatal "$fs is invalid. initrd image creation failed."
+			fi
+		done
+		chmod 0644 $dest/initrd
+	fi
+}
+