On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 16:59, McClintock Matthew-B29882 <b29...@freescale.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Otavio Salvador > <ota...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >>> It must be online though in this case? >> >> The code you add needs to be running on target and doesn't work at >> rootfs built time. This is bad and adds more complications to >> read-only-fs support. > > This works *perfectly* with a read only fs. Each time it boots removes > the non-working serial ports. One could argue that it does NOT work > completely as expected with a writable file system.
It does not. Only if you have tmpfs on it too. >>>> This could be done with a specific package that could mangle the >>>> image at first boot if really need but doing it by default on oe-core >>>> seems the wrong way. >>> >>> Isn't that exactly what this is doing? >>> >>> Easy enough to add this to a separate recipe or bbapends elsewhere if >>> there is disagreement. >> >> The need to diverge from machine default is the exception and this >> could be handled on the image being built, as post rootfs hook or an >> specific package with postinst to be run at target boot to setup it, >> and not by default. > > This will not work as a post rootfs hook as I've explained before. Let > me give you a more concrete example: We have a root file stored in > flash. We use it to boot from on a system with 4 serial ports. We use > the same image again to boot several kvm instances each of which only > have 1 serial port. The kvm instances will have spurious init messages > about respawning getty. This usecase ought to be fulfilled with a specific package our boot script that does this setup on runtime. As I said I see the use-case but disagree about it being done on oe-core. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
