[OE-core] [PATCH] ia32-base: Remove cpio and ext3 defaults

[Behrens, Holger]

> On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 15:25 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On real IA hardware, neither the ext3 or cpio images are particularly useful
> > or used. cpio is legacy from initramfs and that specific image now overrides
> > FSTYPES accordingly. The size difference in filesystems makes ext3 as a file
> > format less useful, mainly being useful in the qemu case.
> >
> > When needed users can still override the default FSTYPES so having
> > saner defaults makes sense. This improves build times and uses less
> > network bandwidth for builds and releases.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> I'm fine with this, although it raises the question if we ought to be
> doing anything more than tar rootfs in include files like this. there
> are ia32 machines where a live image is not useful (although rare). Most
> x86 BSPs would add live - but then again, most x86 BSPs will be starting
> to consolidate on the genericx86 BSPs anyway....

live image does not build in case of INCOMPATIBE_LICENSE = GPLv3

Holger

> But, this is a clear improvement as is.
> 
> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> 
> > ---
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> b/meta/conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> > index 8a20bca..e15f927 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> > +++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ MACHINE_FEATURES += "screen keyboard pci usbhost
> ext2 ext3 x86 \
> >
> >  MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "kernel-modules"
> >
> > -IMAGE_FSTYPES += "ext3 cpio.gz live"
> > +IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
> >
> >  KERNEL_IMAGETYPE ?= "bzImage"
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> Darren Hart
> Intel Open Source Technology Center
> Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
> 
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