[OE-core] Wic and "live" images

[Ian Geiser]

 ---- On Tue, 24 May 2016 15:51:45 -0400 Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com> wrote ---- 
 > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 08:13:28AM -0400, Ian Geiser wrote: 
 > >  > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:52:45AM -0400, Ian Geiser wrote:  

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 > How about creating recipe to prepare content or your boot partition and then using --source rootfs --rootfs-dir=<your recipe> ? 
 > This is much more generic way of creating partitioned images from my 
 > point of view. Image recipes should take care of content and wic takes care of 
 > putting that content into partitions according to the partitioning 
 > scheme described in .wks 
 >  
 > Does it make sense for you? 

I am at a loss how to do this because it is a efi system partition.  Really all it needs is the kernel, initramfs and bootx64.  I see how to do the kernel and the bootx64 in the existing plugin.  What I get turned around with is the initramfs.  It seems like there is no way to put that in, or use a kernel with the initramfs appended.  Is this a limitation that is fixed by "send a patch" or am I missing something there.

 >  
 > >  
 > >  > You can probably do the same by using wic plugins, but I'd not suggest  
 > >  > to go this way. Using wic image type is simpler, more consistent, easier to do and provides higher level of automation.  
 > >  
 > > Is using the wic image type and a plugin mutually exclusive? 
 > No, not at all. However, I personally found the way I described above 
 > more consistent, flexible and easy to implement and maintain. 
 
I am not groking this concept because it seems without a robust library of plugins the wks files become very hard to implement.  Is this true, or am I again missing something obvious.

Thanks for your patience.