Re: [PATCH] bootimg-efi.py: Use IMGDEPLOYDIR instead of DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE for initrd

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 15:44 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 11:36 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:53:30AM -0700, Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
> > > > When using wic to create an image from a certain build, wic is expecting
> > > > to find initrd at the final destination of our images (DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE),
> > > > which is wrong, since the initrd file has not been copied to the final
> > > > directory yet,
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to ensure that initrd is deployed before wic is run by
> > > making do_image_wic depend on initrd deploy task?
> > 
> > Not in this case, because both do_image_wic and do_image_cpio share the
> > same deploy task.
> 
> Now I understand what's going on here. Basically Alejandro is trying to
> use one format of the same image in another. It's like trying to put
> .wic image inside ext2 image or something similar.
> 
> I believe it doesn't fit current design of oe image creation system.
> I'd suggest to use different image recipes to achieve this.

Yes, that is also my preferred solution (see other email from this
morning).

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