Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-15 Thread Joshua Watt
On 3/14/21 6:16 PM, p32 via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: Thank you very much. I figured out that you can have Yocto create a suitable U-Boot wrapper as follows (from the image recipe): IMAGE_FSTYPES = "cpio.xz.u-boot" Now there is only one last issue that I wasn't able to solve yet: I would

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-15 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2021-03-15 at 17:01 +0100, Zoran wrote: > > How can I instruct Yocto to execute do_image_cpio first? > > YOCTO people are entitled to answer that question. Aren't ya, INTEL folks??? > > Actually, iNTEL (IOTG) is responsible for that (since YOCTO support is > 90% from INTEL), and I assume

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-15 Thread Zoran
> Please be aware that this is a community mailing list for the Yocto > Project, and we expect everyone to be as pleasant as possible > I don't think the tone of your last email is appropriate for our > mailing lists. Unfortunately, Nicolas, you are barking under the wrong tree. Please, go to

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-15 Thread Zoran
I can tell you... Ross! Please, focus on The Problem. Could you, please??? Since, I, an independent entity, am trying to help the people! OK? Since I do not care about political IOTG development, rather than on overall (NOT INTEL) resolution of the problem?! Do you understand the core of the

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-15 Thread Nicolas Dechesne
hey Zoran, On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 5:01 PM Zoran wrote: > > > How can I instruct Yocto to execute do_image_cpio first? > > YOCTO people are entitled to answer that question. Aren't ya, INTEL folks??? > > Actually, iNTEL (IOTG) is responsible for that (since YOCTO support is > 90% from INTEL),

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-15 Thread Zoran
> How can I instruct Yocto to execute do_image_cpio first? YOCTO people are entitled to answer that question. Aren't ya, INTEL folks??? Actually, iNTEL (IOTG) is responsible for that (since YOCTO support is 90% from INTEL), and I assume INTEL YOCTO people are entitled answering that/// Thank

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-14 Thread p32 via lists.yoctoproject.org
Thank you very much. I figured out that you can have Yocto create a suitable U-Boot wrapper as follows (from the image recipe): IMAGE_FSTYPES = "cpio.xz.u-boot" Now there is only one last issue that I wasn't able to solve yet: I would like Yocto to not only generate this U-Boot file but also

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-12 Thread Zoran
> 1. have Yocto generate an initramfs.cpio.xz.uboot file > instead of just an initramfs.cpio.xz file and to I assume this is not too hard to achieve. Somewhere in some bitbake config file this should be added, but either me do not know that. So, we'll both wait for this info, maybe some new

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-12 Thread p32 via lists.yoctoproject.org
Thank you very much for your help on the second issue! I was unaware of the fact that another mkimage call is necessary. After taking a look at the the references you provided, I was able to boot the system from an initramfs. However, my current approach requires two manual steps after running

Re: [yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-10 Thread Zoran
BBB example: https://www.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-July/041696.html The line: DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " ram" Should be: DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " nfs" BSP Traces for BBB (YOCTO Warrior):

[yocto] How can I create a truly minimal distribution that runs entirely from RAM?

2021-03-10 Thread p32 via lists.yoctoproject.org
Hello everyone, I am currently using this ( https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest/tree/imx-5.4.3-2.0.0.xml?h=imx-linux-zeus ) Yocto-based build setup provided by NXP to create a custom Linux distribution for one of the i.MX boards. My custom image is based on the