[meta-xilinx] IMAGE_FSTYPES default

Sören Brinkmann soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com
Wed Nov 26 09:19:45 PST 2014


On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 01:23PM +0400, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> > On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:02, Nathan Rossi <nathan.rossi at xilinx.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I will be dropping 'ext2' and 'ext2.gz.u-boot' from the default IMAGE_FSTYPES in meta-xilinx. If anyone has any objections please respond.
> 
> I still use ramdisks for board bringup and tests. I’m okay with dropping it from the default IMAGE_FSTYPES, if you could make an entry in the meta-xilinx documentation on the changes required to restore generation of the ramdisk image.

Overriding the default should be as easy as putting something like this:
  IMAGE_FSTYPES += "cpio cpio.gz.u-boot"
into your local.conf.

Just out of curiosity, why do you need to use the ext2 initrds instead of the
cpio initramfs images?

	Thanks,
	Soren



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