[oe] [Angstrom-devel] [RFC] add kernel-module-loop to roofs for collie and tosa

Marcin Juszkiewicz openembedded at haerwu.biz
Wed Jan 30 11:23:13 UTC 2008


Dnia Wednesday, 30 of January 2008, Junqian Gordon Xu napisał:
> altboot-console-image needs loopback file support either in the kernel
> or as kernel module. 

It is not 'altboot-console-image' which needs it but altboot. 

> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m were set for both collie and tosa. Other Z deviced
> has loopback file support built into the kernel. 

Probably not for long as kernel size increase with each version ;(

> I would propose the following change [both dev and stable] to pack 
> kernel-module-loop into the default rootfs for collie and tosa; and
> bump PR for task-base.

As altboot needs it then it has to be added as RRECOMMENDS to altboot 
recipe rather.

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