On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > just noticed the following -- here's snippets from kernel.bbclass:
> >
> > ... snip ...
> > INITRAMFS_TASK ?= ""
> > ... snip ...
> > # NOTE: setting INITRAMFS_TASK is for backward compatibility
> > # The preferred method is to set INITRAMFS_IMAGE, because
> > # this INITRAMFS_TASK has circular dependency problems
> > # if the initramfs requires kernel modules
> > image_task = d.getVar('INITRAMFS_TASK', True)
> > if image_task:
> > d.appendVarFlag('do_configure', 'depends', ' ${INITRAMFS_TASK}')
> > ... snip ...
> > if [ "$use_alternate_initrd" = "" ] && [ "${INITRAMFS_TASK}" != ""
> > ] ; then
> > # The old style way of copying an prebuilt image and
> > building it
> > # is turned on via INTIRAMFS_TASK != ""
> > ... snip ...
> >
> > i have about a dozen layers checked out and the only other place i
> > see that variable used is:
> >
> > meta-oe/meta-initramfs/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-tiny-kexecboot_3.10.bb:
> > INITRAMFS_TASK = "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}:do_rootfs"
>
> check meta-handheld, it was an existing use case we didn't want to break.
ah, that wasn't one of the layers i had checked out, thanks.
rday
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