[meta-freescale] [3rdparty][PATCH 05/15] apalis-imx6.conf: do not deploy the kernel in the rootfs

[Max Krummenacher]

Hi Otavio

On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 16:30 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The kernel is taken from a separate fat partition in the regular
> > boot process, so there is no need to deploy it in the rootfs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher at toradex.com>
> 
> This is up to you but please consider the possibility of using the
> kernel inside /boot and a single partition. This makes much easier to
> use wic for disk images as you don't need to set IMAGE_BOOT_FILES for
> the all device tree files and kernel.
> 
> I intend to retire the current sdcard generation class so wic should
> be used from now on.
> 

We currently rarely use the sdcard image as we have to flash an on module
eMMC were we also currently use a separate FAT partition for kernel/dtb
and an ext4 partition for the rootfs.

Going away from that will take some decisions and then work to make all
the boot scripts for all module types again align. Maybe something for
the move to Rocko.

I have a look if I can move to wic with a two partition approach for v2,
probably I can again profit by the work done from Boundary Devices.

Max