Re: [PATCH 3/3] image_types: Ensure /init exists for cpio rootfs archives

[Darren Hart <darren.hart@intel.com>]

Apologies, this should have gone to oe-core :/

I will forward there.

On 12/28/2011 03:45 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> In order for the kernel to accept an initramfs as a rootfs,
> it must have /init - even if it is an empty file. Touch /init
> to ensure it exists for cpio and cpio.gz image types.
> 
> When used with initrd and rootfs=/dev/ram0, this allows the
> cpio and cpio.gz images to be used as the rootfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/image_types.bbclass |   10 ++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> index 6893e38..ebff0ba 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> @@ -110,8 +110,14 @@ IMAGE_CMD_tar = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar -cvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME
>  IMAGE_CMD_tar.gz = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar -zcvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.gz ."
>  IMAGE_CMD_tar.bz2 = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar -jcvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.bz2 ."
>  IMAGE_CMD_tar.xz = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar --xz -cvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.xz ."
> -IMAGE_CMD_cpio = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio)"
> -IMAGE_CMD_cpio.gz = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -c -9 >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio.gz)"
> +IMAGE_CMD_cpio () {
> +	touch ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/init
> +	cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio)
> +}
> +IMAGE_CMD_cpio.gz () {
> +	touch ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/init
> +	cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -c -9 >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio.gz)
> +}
>  IMAGE_CMD_cpio.xz = "type cpio >/dev/null; cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc | xz -c ${XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} --check=${XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK} > ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio.xz) ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD}"
>  IMAGE_CMD_cpio.lzma = "type cpio >/dev/null; cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc | xz --format=lzma -c ${XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} --check=${XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK} >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio.lzma) ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD}"
>  


-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel