Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: remove dependency on initramfs when not bundled

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Tue Feb 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM CET, Adrian Freihofer via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>
>
> Previously, the kernel recipe depended on the initramfs image even when
> INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE was not enabled. This caused the kernel to be
> rebuilt whenever the initramfs image changed, regardless of whether the
> kernel actually included the initramfs.
>
> The problematic chain was:
>   linux:do_deploy ->
>   linux:do_bundle_initramfs ->
>   image-initramfs:do_image_complete
>
> The original intent (acc. to the comment) was to ensure the initramfs
> image was available for tools like wic. However, apart from bundling the
> initramfs in the kernel, there is probably no reason why the kernel
> should depend on the initramfs. And it is therefore simply wrong if it
> does so anyway. Thus, use cases that may be broken by these change are
> based on a bug, not a feature. This needs to be fixed by adding a
> dependency on the initramfs in the right place, not in the kernel where
> this destroys the kernel's sstate-caching.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>
> ---

Hi Adrian,

It looks like this is causing some build issues. I only saw them on
ARM64 so far:

ERROR: core-image-full-cmdline-1.0-r0 do_image_wic: Execution of '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericarm64-alt/build/build/tmp/work/genericarm64-poky-linux/core-image-full-cmdline/1.0/temp/run.do_image_wic.2336354' failed with exit code 1
...
| INFO: Creating image(s)...
...
| ERROR: _exec_cmd: cp -v -p /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericarm64-alt/build/build/tmp/deploy/images/genericarm64/core-image-initramfs-boot-genericarm64.cpio.gz /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericarm64-alt/build/build/tmp/work/genericarm64-poky-linux/core-image-full-cmdline/1.0/tmp-wic/hdd/boot returned '1' instead of 0
| output: cp: cannot stat '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericarm64-alt/build/build/tmp/deploy/images/genericarm64/core-image-initramfs-boot-genericarm64.cpio.gz': No such file or directory
|

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/22/builds/3228
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/60/builds/3202

Can you have a look at what is going wrong?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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