[yocto] [PATCH V3 0/3] New distribution definition for poky-tiny

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Leon Woestenberg
<sidebranch.openembedded at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> V3:
>>    o Rebase on master
>>    o Dependent on oe-core series "Fixes for tiny distros and
>> linux-yocto-tiny"
>>
>> RFC V2:
>>    o Use VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps as suggested by Martin Jansa
>>    o Drop poky-common abstraction as suggested by Richard Purdie in
>>      favor of POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_R* variables.
>>
>> Poky-tiny defines a new distro policy for building tiny Linux images.
>>  Rather
>>
>
> Such images are useful for small Linux firmwares, both often also require a
> read-only fs img.
>
> Does this current image require write access at first boot?


That's a good question. I wonder how well we support ro rootfs today.
It'd be nice to have a declarative mechanism to control use of a
unioning filesystem and/or symlinking or bind mounts. poky-tiny does
say that one of its high level policy guidelines is to have a ro
rootfs, so if it doesn't do it today, presumably it's just a matter of
time :)
-- 
Christopher Larson