[OE-core] How to include fitImage-initramfs in rootfs image

[Richard Leitner]

On 24/01/2019 08:52, Robert Yang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/24/19 3:31 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>> Hi Richard.L,
>>
>> On 1/24/19 3:09 PM, Richard Leitner wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm currently facing issues on how to include a fitImage with 
>>> devicetrees and a INITRAMFS_IMAGE in my rootfs image.
> 
> 
> I think that set both INITRAMFS_IMAGE and INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE should 
> work,
> you have set INITRAMFS_IMAGE, so also set:
> 
> INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE = "1"

That was also my first thought, but unfortunately this doesn't work. 
There's still one fitImage and one fitImage-initramfs-mine in the deploy 
dir and the one included in the rootfs image has the same checksum and 
size as the fitImage without the initramfs.

> 
> // Robert
> 
> 
>>>
>>> My config is something like:
>>>
>>> KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "fitImage"
>>> KERNEL_CLASSES  = "kernel-fitimage"
>>> KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "a.dtb b.dtb c.dtb"
>>> INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "initramfs-mine"
>>>
>>> To include the "normal" fitImage without the initramfs in the rootfs 
>>> the following works:
>>>
>>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append += " kernel-image"
>>>
>>>
>>> When digging around a little bit I found that the 
>>> fitImage-initramfs-mine is
>>> deployed to tmp/deploy/images but there's no package including that 
>>> file.
>>
>> fitImage-initramfs-mine is an image, so it is not in any package, it is
>> handled by kernel.bbclass, you can check it for more info.
>>
>> // Robert
>>
>>>
>>> Therefore I'm unable to include it via IMAGE_INSTALL.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>> Is anybody of you aware of a solution?
>>> Does kernel-fitimage and kernel.bbclass offer this at all?
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
>>>
>>> regards;Richard.L