From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905B74C800AB for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:56:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p6EKusG8007301 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.224.146.67] (128.224.146.67) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:56:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1F5814.1050201@windriver.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:56:52 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kumar Gala References: <4E1EEB87.1020200@windriver.com> <9BDFCF4A-EA10-4963-87E0-556604F3E0AB@dominion.thruhere.net> <4E1EF577.2080807@windriver.com> <1943392B-9988-4CDD-8147-E25F8C8C7203@dominion.thruhere.net> <4E1F182E.6000501@windriver.com> <6C5647FD-A95C-41E6-90A6-6427DEA04E61@kernel.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <6C5647FD-A95C-41E6-90A6-6427DEA04E61@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Yocto discussion list Subject: Re: IMAGE_FSTYPES that are supported? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:56:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/14/11 12:34, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > >> On 07/14/11 12:21, Koen Kooi wrote: >>> >>> Op 14 jul 2011, om 18:20 heeft Kumar Gala het volgende geschreven: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 07/14/11 09:40, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Op 14 jul 2011, om 15:13 heeft Bruce Ashfield het volgende geschreven: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 07/14/11 09:05, Kumar Gala wrote: >>>>>>>> Is there a list of which IMAGE_FSTYPES are supported. I didn't see anything in the docs. Looking to see if a u-boot 'mkimage' wrapped set of images is supported or not. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm not 100% where the list is, but I can confirm that >>>>>>> uImages are supported and work nicely. Assuming that >>>>>>> you are talking about the common use case, and not something >>>>>>> more exotic :) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I think he means partitioned uimages where you have a kernel + initrd in a single uimage. We don't support that *yet*, but all the needed blocks are there. And we finally get a usecase for having the loadadresses in the machine.conf files :) >>>>> >>>>> Yah, that's what I wondered as well. I've done this locally, >>>>> but nothing out of the box .. so I had nagging doubts! >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Bruce >>>>> >>>> >>>> What's the IMAGE_FSTYPE for a normal uImage ? >>> >>> None, it's built by the kernel class, not the rootfs class. >> >> and to expand a bit, the machine conf would have: >> >> KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage" >> >> So the kernel class will build and produce a uImage for deployment. > > Ah, so there isnt support for getting a ramdisk wrapped via mkimage. Correct, or at least not that I've used out of the box, and this is what Koen was commenting on. Cheers, Bruce > > - k