[meta-xilinx] IMAGE_FSTYPES default

[Philip Balister]

I care

On 11/14/2014 03:02 AM, Nathan Rossi wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-xilinx-
>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Philip Balister
>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 7:38 AM
>> To: meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: [meta-xilinx] IMAGE_FSTYPES default
>>
>> https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-
>> xilinx/blob/master/conf/machine/include/machine-xilinx-default.inc#L4
>>
>> sets
>>
>> IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "cpio tar.gz ext2 ext2.gz.u-boot cpio.gz.u-boot"
>>
>> This causes problems for people building large images. Image build take
>> a long time and you can easily run out of disk space. I've been
>> overriding this in local.conf, but maybe a smaller set of default images
>> would be helpful.
> 
> Which types do use?
> 
> The "ext*" types would be the main candidate for exclusion. Open to suggestions though.
> 

I care about the tar.gz case. I'm not using ramdisks, but we should have
support for the most popular one. And remind people to adjust for their
specific needs in local.conf if they build large images.

Philip

> Regards,
> Nathan
> 
> 
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