Newbie: Minimal OE build

Newbie: Minimal OE build

[Chuck Kamas]

Hi all,

I would like to use OE to build a rootfs plus busybox and a few i2c
tools and that is about it.  What Distribution should I use as my base?
Angstrom?  Angstrom seems to pull in lots of things that are not needed
like Bluetooth.  Is there a better starting place?

Thanks
Chuck

Re: Newbie: Minimal OE build

[Koen Kooi]

On 18-04-09 01:57, Chuck Kamas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to use OE to build a rootfs plus busybox and a few i2c
> tools and that is about it.  What Distribution should I use as my base?
> Angstrom?

Yes.

> Angstrom seems to pull in lots of things that are not needed
> like Bluetooth.

That's not angstrom that's doing this, it's the image recipe. For 
example the kexecboot-image binary in angstrom is 80kilobytes in size 
for the armv5te architecture.

> Is there a better starting place?

No.

regards,

Koen

Re: Newbie: Minimal OE build

[Chuck Kamas]

Koen,

Do you mean the recipe:
recipes/kexecboot/initramfs-kexecboot-image.bb

Chuck


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Subject: Re: [oe] Newbie: Minimal OE build

On 18-04-09 01:57, Chuck Kamas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to use OE to build a rootfs plus busybox and a few i2c 
> tools and that is about it.  What Distribution should I use as my
base?
> Angstrom?

Yes.

> Angstrom seems to pull in lots of things that are not needed like 
> Bluetooth.

That's not angstrom that's doing this, it's the image recipe. For
example the kexecboot-image binary in angstrom is 80kilobytes in size
for the armv5te architecture.

> Is there a better starting place?

No.

regards,

Koen


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Re: Newbie: Minimal OE build

[Shane Dixon]

Chuck,

It's whatever image you build.  There's a guide in the manual for a few
of the pre-built images:

http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/html/gettingoe_building_software.html#id508473

If you want an image that's pretty fat-free, I'd suggest the bootstrap
image.  That's what I base all of my stuff off of while I'm developing.
It's a console-only image.

Image recipes are found in recipes/images/

--
Shane

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 13:38 -0700, Chuck Kamas wrote:
> Koen,
> 
> Do you mean the recipe:
> recipes/kexecboot/initramfs-kexecboot-image.bb
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Koen Kooi
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:12 AM
> To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [oe] Newbie: Minimal OE build
> 
> On 18-04-09 01:57, Chuck Kamas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to use OE to build a rootfs plus busybox and a few i2c 
> > tools and that is about it.  What Distribution should I use as my
> base?
> > Angstrom?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Angstrom seems to pull in lots of things that are not needed like 
> > Bluetooth.
> 
> That's not angstrom that's doing this, it's the image recipe. For
> example the kexecboot-image binary in angstrom is 80kilobytes in size
> for the armv5te architecture.
> 
> > Is there a better starting place?
> 
> No.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
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