Re: [dunfell/master PATCH 4/6] recipes-core: images: Add a basic bootstrap base image

["Denys Dmytriyenko" <denis@denix.org>]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:13:14PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Since we do not wish to modify the tiny-image from anything but really
> tiny, lets use that infrastructure and add the bootstrap package group
> to create initramfs (not exactly a completely usable system) which can
> be used for basic board bringup.
> 
> This generates cpio around 36-40MB which should be usually fine for
> even smaller systems (Ofcourse, this is much larger than tiny-image
> which is around 6MB size). The packages are organized per size to
> allow easier customization if desired.
> 
> This image follows the Bring Your Own Kernel model from
> tisdk-tiny-image.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
> ---
>  .../images/tisdk-bootstrap-base-image.bb      | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-bootstrap-base-image.bb
> 
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-bootstrap-base-image.bb b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-bootstrap-base-image.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a18f39602286
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-bootstrap-base-image.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +# Arago TI SDK bootstrap base image for initramfs
> +# This will not get a completely usable image since kernel will be missing

Same comment as for earlier patch.


> +# intent for this image is to build as basic a system with enough basic
> +# Board bringup utilities that can then be used for additions as needed.
> +
> +require arago-tiny-image.inc
> +
> +IMAGE_FSTYPES += "cpio cpio.xz"
> +
> +ARAGO_BOOTSTRAP_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL ?= ""
> +
> +IMAGE_INSTALL += " \
> +	packagegroup-arago-bootstrap \
> +	${ARAGO_BOOTSTRAP_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL} \
> +"
> +
> +# We do not need kernel Image, dtbs and modules in the initrd
> +deltask do_packagedata

Huh? Not sure what you are trying to do here, but it certainly isn't right...
You are trying to partially disable generating of IPK packages for the image, 
but images by default have no packages to produce.


> +export IMAGE_BASENAME = "tisdk-bootstrap-base-image"
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

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