Re: [PATCH openbmc] Build a tftpboot friendly image.

[Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:04:28 -0400
Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:

> Yep, thats what it does.  Did you use obmc-phosphor-image-<machine>.cpio.lzma.u-boot?
> 

Ah, nope that file doesn't appear to exist in my images directory. This must be
my fault, I don't really have any idea how to use bitbake more than what is on
the openbmc wiki, I hoped simply rerunning `bitbake openbmc-phosphor-image`
would have worked... doesn't appear to have created the file.

Thanks for the quick response.

Cyril

> -brad
> 
> > On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:20:29 -0500
> > OpenBMC Patches <openbmc-patches@stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> >   
> >> From: Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com>
> >> 
> >> Build a rootfs cpio uimage with everything along with the other
> >> images.  
> > 
> > There isn't much to go with, are you saying you're building a initramfs image
> > that contains the full openbmc userspace so that a booting system doesn't need
> > access to the flash at all. This is exactly what I need right now, thankyou!!
> > 
> > I've applied this patch, and I THINK I booted with the right file... doesn't
> > appear to have worked, it still tried to mount the flash and because I can't
> > flash openbmc on my machine I got dropped into recovery shell.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Thanks anyway...
> > 
> > Cyril
> >   
> >> ---
> >> meta-phosphor/conf/machine/include/obmc-bsp-common.inc | 1 +
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/machine/include/obmc-bsp-common.inc b/meta-phosphor/conf/machine/include/obmc-bsp-common.inc
> >> index 60ed088..260cc90 100644
> >> --- a/meta-phosphor/conf/machine/include/obmc-bsp-common.inc
> >> +++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/machine/include/obmc-bsp-common.inc
> >> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ UBOOT_SUFFIX ?= "bin"
> >> MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "openbmc:"
> >> 
> >> IMAGE_FSTYPES += "overlay"
> >> +IMAGE_FSTYPES += "cpio.${INITRAMFS_CTYPE}.u-boot"
> >> IMAGE_INSTALL += "u-boot-fw-utils"
> >> 
> >> IMAGE_CLASSES += "obmc-phosphor-image_types_uboot"  
> > 
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