[OE-core] Failed to build zImage-initramfs

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 9:06 PM JH <jupiter.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Khem,
>
> On 10/13/19, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2019-10-13 at 12:14 +1100, JH wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Apologize if it is not right mailing list for helps, please advise
> >> which mailing list I should go.
> >>
> >> I have been trying to build zImage-initramfs, according to the
> >> oe-core/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass, I defined following variables in
> >> local.conf:
> >>
> >> INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "zImage-initramfs"
> >
> > this should be the rootfs image that you want to bundle into kernel and
> > not the name of final kernel as above. Put something like core-image-
> > minimal-initramfs or somesuch here.
>
> Thanks for the response, could you have more specific what I should
> change? From kernel.bbclass, without defining INITRAMFS_IMAGE and
> INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE copy_initramfs() and do_bundle_initramfs ()
> won't be called, am wrong about it?
>
> Anyway, I followed your instruction to define the rootfs image in
> local.conf, it did not work, please correct me.
>
> $ vi local.conf
> IMAGE_ROOTFS += " core-image-minimal-initramfs"
>

INITRAMFS_IMAGE should be an image name. Like core-image-minimal or somesuch

> Thank you very much Khem,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> - jh