From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [bug] bootwrapper runs before linking initrd
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 12:39:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150904123929.085e85bd@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp1yo6l6.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>
Dear Peter Korsgaard,
On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:51:33 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > I must say I'm not thrilled by making such major changes to Buildroot
> > just for the sake of this very specific use-case. But we probably don't
> > have much choice.
>
> I don't know any details of this boot wrapper, but perhaps we could
> change the package to only build the host tool and simply ask people to
> write a post-image script to invoke it with the correct arguments once
> the build is completely done, similar to what we do for other custom
> "post processing" tasks?
Doesn't work: the kernel image is *linked* into the boot wrapper. So
really, it's not just a post-processing tool, you need the kernel image
to build the wrapper.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-04 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 22:00 [Buildroot] [bug] bootwrapper runs before linking initrd Hollis Blanchard
2015-09-04 8:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-04 9:51 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-04 10:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-09-04 19:52 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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