On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 11:39:47PM -0500, Ryan Eatmon via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> The initramfs does not need grub-efi or the /boot directory since it
> does not have to boot the system itself. So create a version of the
> tiny-image that strips those out and follow the oe-core methodology for
> initramfs.
So, kernel.bbclass has a default weak dependency from kernel-base to
kernel-image, which is meant to be broken/cleared if you don't need to
pull kernel images into a rootfs.
To simplify, it looked like this some time ago:
RDEPENDS:kernel-base ?= "kernel-image"
Well, these days it's ${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base and
${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-image
So one can prevent pulling kernel images into rootfs:
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc#n19
But, this is a kernel variable that controls how kernel packages get
generated with their dependencies. You can modify it either in the kernel
recipe itself, ot globally in either <machine>.conf or <distro>.conf.
We also use the same mechanism to pull in kernel-devicetree package with
DTBs and other required FW images.
Unfortunately, that also means it cannot be adjusted on a per-image basis.
Hence, in the past we used to do exactly the same by removing /boot directory
for a initramfs image (you don't need to create a separate class though):
https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-arago/tree/meta-arago-distro/recipes-bsp/netboot-initrd/netboot-initrd_0.0.1.bb?id=f9cf73fd8821af096fed7ad4d485af72c8ecc3ce
Oh, and RDEPENDS was recently replaced with RRECOMMENDS:
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass#n708
Supposedly, this should make the dependency even weaker and allow
breaking it inside image recipe with BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS, but my
quick testing didn't work for some reason...
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Eatmon <[email protected]>
> ---
> .../classes/remove-boot-dir.bbclass | 8 ++++++
> .../images/tisdk-tiny-initramfs.bb | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
> .../packagegroup-arago-initramfs.bb | 4 +++
> 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 meta-arago-distro/classes/remove-boot-dir.bbclass
> create mode 100644
> meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-tiny-initramfs.bb
> create mode 100644
> meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-arago-initramfs.bb
>
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/classes/remove-boot-dir.bbclass
> b/meta-arago-distro/classes/remove-boot-dir.bbclass
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..bd0c09fc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/classes/remove-boot-dir.bbclass
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +# Add a ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND that will remove some files from the
> +# rootfs for initramfs images.
> +
> +ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_boot_dir;"
> +
> +remove_boot_dir () {
> + rm -rf ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot
> +}
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-tiny-initramfs.bb
> b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-tiny-initramfs.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..0bea8276
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/images/tisdk-tiny-initramfs.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +SUMMARY = "Arago TI SDK super minimal base image for initramfs"
> +
> +DESCRIPTION = "Image meant for basic boot of linux kernel. Intended as\
> + bare system, this image does not package the kernel in the\
> + standard /boot folder in rootfs. Instead, it provides a base\
> + rootfs allowing kernel to be deployed elsewhere\
> + (tftp/separate boot partition/jtag log etc..) and boot\
> + the image.\
> +"
> +
> +LICENSE = "MIT"
> +
> +inherit core-image
> +inherit remove-boot-dir
> +
> +IMAGE_FEATURES:remove = "package-management"
> +
> +INITRAMFS_FSTYPES = "cpio cpio.xz"
> +INITRAMFS_MAXSIZE = "65536"
> +IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR = "1"
> +
> +IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}"
> +
> +PACKAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-arago-initramfs"
> +
> +export IMAGE_BASENAME = "tisdk-tiny-initramfs"
> diff --git
> a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-arago-initramfs.bb
>
> b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-arago-initramfs.bb
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..380cc0e3
> --- /dev/null
> +++
> b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-arago-initramfs.bb
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +
> +require recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb
> +
> +RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = "grub-efi kernel"
> --
> 2.17.1
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