They are device agnostic to the some extend. But currently oemboot for armv7l doesn't support networking and that means that initial initrd cannot run nbd-client to mount root. But, I think that It worth to stop bloating oemboot and introduce nbdboot
2015-11-15 2:16 GMT+03:00 Tony Su <[email protected]>: > I was under the impression that JeOS images were pretty much device > agnostic, laying the image should lay a supported file system on the > block device. > > Can't what you propose already be done? Or, maybe your source and > method to lay the JeOS might be different than what I am thinking of? > > Tony > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Matwey V. Kornilov > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> What do you think about adding possibility to use nbd (network block >> device) as a root partition for JeOSes? >> >> It could be useful for hardware-testing farms. For instance, u-boot >> takes kernel and initrd via tftp and then kiwi-based initrd mounts root >> device /dev/nbd0 feed by qemu-nbd. >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected] >> -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov http://blog.matwey.name xmpp://[email protected] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
