Hi Tom,
On 05/23/2013 08:55 AM, Tom Gall wrote:
Chiming in.
We've been working to put together a linaro image with a graphics stack that is based on xfce for OE.
I really like the idea that OE should output an axf and img that both the Foundation and RTSM models can utilize straight away without a hwpack or linaro-media-create. Extra steps are a drag.
Out of curiosity where is the code that outputs the root file system for a tarball or ext3 img?
The decision to generate these images is made in conf/site.conf which is generated by openembedded/meta-aarch64/scripts/init.sh. (In my opinion, it'd be nice if site.conf could be put under revision control itself.) Anyhow, openembedded-core/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass has the filesystem generation commands. Ext2 support, for example:
http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/classes/image_types....
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Fathi Boudra fathi.boudra@linaro.org wrote:
On 23 May 2013 13:20, Nicolas Dechesne nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Fathi Boudra fathi.boudra@linaro.org wrote:
It's not a big deal since LAVA started supporting prebuilt images. For ARMv8 the only problem I had is that LAVA digs some files from the rootfs partition, and due to hwpack/linaro-media-create LAVA expects the rootfs to be the second partition, while the OE image doesn't have a partition table.
there's always "the only problem", and then you have another one and so on. "greatly faster, simpler and more cost effective" that's what you said? afaics, you're wasting your time (and probably some LAVA guys time) on something already working... what's the benefit?
well, in my case, we might not have the choice, as you guessed it right, there are other stakeholders, and i might not be able to justify an hwpack solution as opposed to a native OE solution. i will get a better (complete) picture by Connect, and we can discuss more then.
Nico, I know your use case and I'm definitely not pushing on the hwpack story specifically (even more for your project).
In other words, I don't think linaro specific approach is perfect and I don't want to maintain the status quo (that's the goal of hwpackv4). I want to move forward to improve the situation and be more efficient but I'm not convinced the native approach is perfect either. As I said previously, there's pros/cons for both solutions.
I'm glad there's interest on the topic and see you at Connect to have a constructive discussion :)
Regards, Christopher