On 6/28/11 8:15 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 23:11 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: >> On 6/27/11 9:09 PM, Cui, Dexuan wrote: >>> Hi all, below is an initial investigation about the task and we'll continue >>> to further look into it. >>> >>> In poky we have 2 types of postinst scripts: one (type-1) can be (and has >>> already been) run at rootfs generation time and the other (type-2) has to >>> be delayed to the first-boot of target device. Type-2 makes target device's >>> first-boot slow and it would be great if we can fix it and convert it to >>> type-1. >>> >>> We can instrument a first-boot with minimal/sato first to see which >>> postinstalls take the most time and then prioritise those ones to fix. >>> >>> I figurerd out a list of 33 recipes in total(recipes with the same name but >>> with different versions are counted once) we possibly need to fix. >>> For the recipes, we need try to find recipe-specific ways(use appropriately >>> modified native utilities to generate caches, files, etc as necessary on >>> the target filesystem). >>> >> >> ... >> >>> 1 recipe: prelink: we could propablly fix it, but I'm not sure yet. >>> meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb >> >> There is nothing to do for the prelinker. The "image-prelink.bbclass" >> handles >> everything needed to prelink during image creation. The script is only there >> for on-target field upgrades. So you can remove this from your list. > > Mark, are you 100% sure about this? > > It looks like if we install prelink into an image it adds a post install > which runs "prelink -a" on the target device at first boot. > > This would happen regardless of whether the cross prelinker did or did > not prelink the image :/.
That is certainly not the intention of this code. If it does, it should be a fairly quick bug to fix -- and improve boot-time. (Of course, this only should be skipped if we've done image-prelink.bbclass.) I'll attempt to look into this shortly.... --Mark > Cheers, > > Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
