[meta-freescale] [qoriq] shouldn't fsl-image-minimal.bb inherit image-types-uboot?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2013 02:40 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Working from the master branches of both poky and meta-fsl-ppc, I just
>>> built
>>> a fresh image of fsl-image-minimal and noticed that
>>> fsl-image-minimal-<machine>.ext2.gz.u-boot links to a non existent file.
>>>
>>> Since ext2.gz.u-boot is one of the IMAGE_FSTYPES, I believe the intent is
>>> to
>>> build a rootfs that is bootable by u-boot.  However, I believe
>>> image_types_uboot needs to be inherited in the recipe.
>>>
>>> Therefore, I modified the recipe to have:
>>>
>>> inherit core-image image_types_uboot
>>>
>>> Can someone from Freescale please comment on this?  Do you want the
>>> minimal
>>> image recipe to build a u-boot bootable rootfs?  If so, I think we want
>>> to
>>> patch the recipe.
>>
>>
>> We currently do this in our setup script, it could probably (and
>> probably should be) be added somewhere in the layer. Can you send a
>> tested patch?
>>
>> -M
>>
>
> I will, but I'll do it after I resolve a problem in the master branches
> that's preventing my p1010rdb from booting. It hangs during (sysv)init, and
> I believe it has something to do with /dev/console.
>
> It's hanging up in one of the init scripts, but the frustrating thing is
> that neither echo nor set -x are being directed to the console.
>
> Still poking around trying to figure it out.....

This is a non-related problem so you could post the u-boot fix in meanwhile :-)

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