[OE-core] [PATCH 2/3] core-image-minimal-initramfs: force IMAGE_FSTYPES

[Andrea Adami]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
<dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 05:55 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 15 November 2011 12:30:15 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>>>
>>> This was merged as IMAGE_FSTYPES =+ "cpio.gz"
>>> Now this brings problems if I have IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live" in my
>>> local.conf / BSP machine.conf.
>>>
>>> 1) OE tries to generate hddimg for this initramfs image, which is
>>> strange idea
>>> 2) If OE is trying to generate bootimg (hddimg) when the kernel is not
>>> yet deployed, building fails (as bootimg can't find a deployed kernel to
>>> put into hddimg).
>>>
>>> Please revert this back to original patch as proposed by Paul.
>>
>> OK, so what are we going to do about this? Do we have to do some filtering
>> of
>> this variable?
>
> I'd propose to just set it via:
>
> IMAGE_FSTYPES = "cpio.gz". It is really no point in generating other types
> of inititramfs images.

In some other initramfs-images "cpio.lzma" is a welcomed option to save size.

Regards

Andrea

>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>
>
> --
> With best wishes
> Dmitry
>
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