Re: [PATCH 2/6] core-image-tiny-initramfs: Add and image creating image artifacts only

[Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez@linux.intel.com>]

Alex, the patch requires to be signed off.


On 01/03/2017 04:30 PM, Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
> From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
>
> Add an image that simply creates image artifacts using
> image-live-artifacts support instead of creating an actual image.
>
> The image artifacts can then be subsequently assembled by an external
> tool such as wic to create an actual image.
>
> This eliminates redundant image creation when using such tools.
> ---
>   .../images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb            | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..216f3e0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-tiny-initramfs.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +# Simple initramfs image artifact generation for tiny images.
> +DESCRIPTION = "Tiny image capable of booting a device. The kernel includes \
> +the Minimal RAM-based Initial Root Filesystem (initramfs), which finds the \
> +first 'init' program more efficiently.  core-image-tiny-initramfs doesn't \
> +actually generate an image but rather generates boot and rootfs artifacts \
> +into a common location that can subsequently be picked up by external image \
> +generation tools such as wic."
> +
> +PACKAGE_INSTALL = "initramfs-live-boot packagegroup-core-boot dropbear ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} udev base-passwd ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL}"
> +
> +# Do not pollute the initrd image with rootfs features
> +IMAGE_FEATURES = ""
> +
> +export IMAGE_BASENAME = "core-image-tiny-initramfs"
> +IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
> +
> +LICENSE = "MIT"
> +
> +# don't actually generate an image, just the artifacts needed for one
> +ARTIFACTS_ONLY ?= "1"
> +
> +IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}"
> +inherit core-image
> +
> +IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
> +IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
> +
> +BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"
> +
> +# Use the same restriction as initramfs-live-install
> +COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64).*-linux"