Re: [PATCH] recipes-core/images: Build ti-core-initramfs alongside tisdk images

[Moteen Shah <m-shah@ti.com>]

Hey Ryan,

On 02/09/26 19:35, Ryan Eatmon wrote:
>
>
> On 9/2/2026 8:28 AM, Moteen Shah wrote:
>> Neither image sets TI_CORE_INITRAMFS_KERNEL_MODULES or
>> TI_CORE_INITRAMFS_EXTRA_INSTALL for j722s, so the machine-wide
>> TI_CORE_INITRAMFS_ENABLED gate in meta-ti-bsp stays off by default for
>> this machine. Force ti-core-initramfs to build via an explicit
>> do_build dependency in arago-image.inc, the common include every
>> tisdk-*-image recipe require.
>
> Why do we need to force an initramfs on every platform/image? What is 
> the point?  The point of the initramfs was that *some* boards need 
> some kernel modules to boot so we only require it for those platforms.
>

Is something like this okay?

--- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc
+++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc
@@ -30,3 +30,11 @@ BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += " \
  BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "${@oe.utils.conditional("INIT_MANAGER", 
"sysvinit", "", "busybox-syslog", d)}"

  inherit core-image remove-net-rules
+
+ARAGO_TI_CORE_INITRAMFS_STEP ?= ""
+ARAGO_TI_CORE_INITRAMFS_STEP:j722s = "ti-core-initramfs:do_image_complete"
+
+do_build[depends] += "${ARAGO_TI_CORE_INITRAMFS_STEP}"


With the above change I need to do some meta-ti fix as well.

Regards,
Moteen


>
>> Signed-off-by: Moteen Shah <m-shah@ti.com>
>> ---
>> This patch has a dependency on the following series:
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/meta-ti/message/20235
>>
>>   meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc | 4 ++++
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc 
>> b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc
>> index 37b20850..398e299f 100644
>> --- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc
>> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/arago-image.inc
>> @@ -30,3 +30,7 @@ BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += " \
>>   BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "${@oe.utils.conditional("INIT_MANAGER", 
>> "sysvinit", "", "busybox-syslog", d)}"
>>     inherit core-image remove-net-rules
>> +
>> +# Force ti-core-initramfs to build alongside every image based on 
>> this common include.
>> +
>> +do_build[depends] += "ti-core-initramfs:do_image_complete"
>