[OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/5] kernel-fitimage: Add initramfs, x86 support

[George McCollister]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:37:52AM -0500, George McCollister wrote:
>> Add support for building fitImages that include an initramfs and booting
>> on x86.
>
> I'm in the process of testing this version now.
>
>
> I'm wondering, if bundling everything in a single patchset will delay
> acceptance even further? Case in point - I'm mostly interested in initramfs
> support and it's been in limbo state for several months now. It was a single
> patch back then and there were no major comments or issues with it. Few months
> later, 2 extra patches were added with x86 support. Now recent $B change broke
> few things and we need 2 more patches just to get everything working again...

I'm surprised it wasn't accepted when it was a single patch. At this
point I don't know what's keeping it from being accepted since I
haven't received any feedback. I suspect whoever is maintaining OE
core doesn't have time to look at it.

>
> The reason I'm bringing this up is because I've been working on this area
> recently and would like to contribute back some code (fixes, customizations).
> Since it depends on this patchset, I'm not sure if I should wait for it to get
> accepted or we'll just end up growing the patchset for another iteration...

Your fixes, customizations are welcome however I've had this concern
as it has grown. Hopefully we can get some feedback soon as to what's
holding up the acceptance.

>
> --
> Denys
>
>
>> * V2
>>  - Include Andrew Bradford's cd to $B patch since it is now required for
>>    do_assemble_fitimage to work
>>  - Fix initramfs support patch to cd to $B in do_assemble_fitimage_initramfs
>>  - Remove ${B} in call to fitimage_emit_section_ramdisk per
>>    Denys Dmytriyenko's suggestion
>>  - Add patch to cd to $B in do_concat_dtb()
>>
>> The following changes since commit c4dda05cb9755cb865c1d1bd142196f8a9f45d3d:
>>
>>   Revert "packagegroup-core-x11-base.bb: replace pointercal with pointercal-xinput" (2016-08-04 20:54:57 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://github.com/gmccollister/openembedded-core master-fit
>>   https://github.com/gmccollister/openembedded-core/tree/master-fit
>>
>> Andrew Bradford (1):
>>   kernel-fitimage.bbclass: do_assemble_fitimage(): cd to $B
>>
>> George McCollister (4):
>>   kernel-fitimage: add initramfs support
>>   kernel-fitimage: Add x86 support
>>   uboot-sign: Handle .rom signing the same as .img
>>   uboot-sign: do_concat_dtb(): cd to $B
>>
>>  meta/classes/kernel-fitimage.bbclass | 346 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>  meta/classes/uboot-sign.bbclass      |   4 +-
>>  2 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
>>
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