[OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-minimal-initramfs: use initramfs-framework for initialization

[Cal Sullivan]

Anything wrong with this? Haven't seen it hit any mut branches.

Thanks,
Cal

On 12/19/2017 02:12 PM, California Sullivan wrote:
> initramfs-framework is more modular and expandable. This change was
> proposed in commit 28fc6ba761ed4a47efa7c43e7f7dff5e2fe72b5e
> "core-image-minimal-initramfs: use initramfs-framework by default" but
> reverted due to the selftests runqemu.RunqemuTests.test_boot_machine_iso
> and runqemu.RunqemuTests.test_boot_deploy_hddimg failing. Since then,
> the kinks have been worked out, and missing functionality that had been
> missed (non-EFI installation module) has been added.
>
> Since the PACKAGE_INSTALL variable was getting so long with all these
> individual modules getting added, I also introduced a new
> INITRAMFS_SCRIPTS variable to the core-image-minimal-initramfs recipe.
> This variable makes the recipe look much cleaner, and also allows easier
> replacement or additions to the scripts.
>
> Fixes [YOCTO #10987].
>
> Signed-off-by: California Sullivan <california.l.sullivan at intel.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb | 10 +++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb
> index 5794a25952a..a9ba91bd310 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb
> @@ -3,7 +3,15 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Small image capable of booting a device. The kernel includes \
>   the Minimal RAM-based Initial Root Filesystem (initramfs), which finds the \
>   first 'init' program more efficiently."
>   
> -PACKAGE_INSTALL = "initramfs-live-boot initramfs-live-install initramfs-live-install-efi ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} udev base-passwd ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL}"
> +INITRAMFS_SCRIPTS ?= "\
> +                      initramfs-framework-base \
> +                      initramfs-module-setup-live \
> +                      initramfs-module-udev \
> +                      initramfs-module-install \
> +                      initramfs-module-install-efi \
> +                     "
> +
> +PACKAGE_INSTALL = "${INITRAMFS_SCRIPTS} ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} udev base-passwd ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL}"
>   
>   # Do not pollute the initrd image with rootfs features
>   IMAGE_FEATURES = ""