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

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

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 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.

I think you stepped on this workaround, that is no longer needed:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-arago/commit/?id=a75e468a372d4f5c2c32a179d4d2219899b5190c


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

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