[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] runqemu: support booting poky-tiny images

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Scott Garman <scott.a.garman at intel.com> wrote:
>> Added support for booting poky-tiny images, which do not have block
>> device support. Note to shut down a running poky-tiny image, you
>> need to include the -f option to the poweroff command.
>>
>> This fixes [YOCTO #2612].
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  scripts/runqemu          |    6 ++++++
>>  scripts/runqemu-internal |    5 +++++
>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
>> index 7454dd4..6f2f861 100755
>> --- a/scripts/runqemu
>> +++ b/scripts/runqemu
>> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ usage() {
>>      echo "  KERNEL - the kernel image file to use"
>>      echo "  ROOTFS - the rootfs image file or nfsroot directory to use"
>>      echo "  MACHINE - the machine name (optional, autodetected from KERNEL filename if unspecified)"
>> +    echo "  TINY - specify 'tiny' if booting a poky-tiny image"
>
>
> you seem to be mixing poky distro with OE-Core here. As a whole the
> patch seems like adding support for ramfs based images. If you intend
> to just have images specific to poky then this patch
> belongs to OE-Core but if you generalize it enough that non
             ^^^^^^^

should be read as poky

> tiny users can also leverage this then it certainly is good
> for OE-Core.
>
>>      echo "  Simplified QEMU command-line options can be passed with:"
>>      echo "    nographic - disables video console"
>>      echo "    serial - enables a serial console on /dev/ttyS0"
>> @@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ usage() {
>>      echo "  $MYNAME qemuarm"
>>      echo "  $MYNAME qemux86-64 core-image-sato ext3"
>>      echo "  $MYNAME path/to/bzImage-qemux86.bin path/to/nfsrootdir/ serial"
>> +    echo "  $MYNAME qemux86 tiny"
>>      echo "  $MYNAME qemux86 qemuparams=\"-m 256\""
>>      echo "  $MYNAME qemux86 bootparams=\"psplash=false\""
>>      exit 1
>> @@ -118,6 +120,10 @@ while true; do
>>                  LAZY_ROOTFS="true"
>>              fi
>>              ;;
>> +        "tiny")
>> +            FSTYPE=cpio.gz
>> +            TINY=true
>> +            ;;
>>          "nographic")
>>              SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT="$SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT -nographic"
>>              SCRIPT_KERNEL_OPT="$SCRIPT_KERNEL_OPT console=ttyS0"
>> diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-internal b/scripts/runqemu-internal
>> index eeadb24..5147c86 100755
>> --- a/scripts/runqemu-internal
>> +++ b/scripts/runqemu-internal
>> @@ -453,6 +453,11 @@ if [ "$MACHINE" = "akita" ]; then
>>      fi
>>  fi
>>
>> +if [ "x$TINY" = "xtrue" ]; then
>> +    QEMUOPTIONS="-initrd $ROOTFS -nographic"
>> +    KERNCMDLINE="console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram0"
>> +fi
>> +
>>  if [ "x$QEMUOPTIONS" = "x" ]; then
>>      echo "Error: Unable to support this combination of options"
>>      cleanup
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
>>
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