While investigating the storage usage in OpenBMC I noticed that several features are enabled by default because their meson options default to true or because they use .allowed() instead of .enabled() for the validation. This pollutes the storage which is expensive on some platforms (there are platforms that only have ~20 MiB for rofs).
This series adds packageconfigs for the features ukify, sysinstall, hwdb and fdisk. ukify was enabled by default but only works on EFI systems. On non-EFI builds it will be disabled by default, but enabled by default when the efi DISTRO_FEATURE is set. sysinstall is a neat feature that makes installation guidance easier, but for a lot of embedded systems it is just a waste of storage. It's not enabled by default as it has runtime dependencies on systemd-repart which weren't checked before. Enabling it by default would mean we'd have to enable OpenSSL and repart which does not seem viable to me. For hwdb, it might be useful for systems that see PCI/USB/HID devices or for some laptops, but who needs ThinkPad keymaps on an ARM1176 SoC? fdisk is recommended by libsystemd-shared, and disabling it drops util-linux-libfdisk. This is only required for sysupdate, repart and homed. With all the changes I was able to free a significant amount of storage again (the hwdb alone was ~9 MiB uncompressed). I've tested my changes with qemux86-64 by building systemd with the default configuration and with fdisk off, hwdb off, sysinstall on (with and without repart), ukify on, and with the efi DISTRO_FEATURE (with and without ukify), then checked the resulting packages, shipped binaries and RRECOMMENDS. Enabling repart or homed without fdisk fails at parse time as expected. The testimage with default and hwdb-off + usbutils configuration booted and passed the default tests. Signed-off-by: Tan Siewert <[email protected]> --- Tan Siewert (4): systemd: add ukify packageconfig systemd: add sysinstall packageconfig systemd: add hwdb packageconfig systemd: add fdisk packageconfig meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_262.bb | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- base-commit: ae5cafacec8e99c5a27fa5b3b378eefc595910ef change-id: 20261021-systemd-optimisations-dae99d91e807 Best regards, -- Tan Siewert <[email protected]>
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