[yocto] IMAGE_FSTYPES that are supported?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 07/14/11 12:21, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Op 14 jul 2011, om 18:20 heeft Kumar Gala het volgende geschreven:
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>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
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>>> On 07/14/11 09:40, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>>>> Op 14 jul 2011, om 15:13 heeft Bruce Ashfield het volgende geschreven:
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>>>>> On 07/14/11 09:05, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>>>> Is there a list of which IMAGE_FSTYPES are supported.  I didn't see anything in the docs.  Looking to see if a u-boot 'mkimage' wrapped set of images is supported or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not 100% where the list is, but I can confirm that
>>>>> uImages are supported and work nicely. Assuming that
>>>>> you are talking about the common use case, and not something
>>>>> more exotic :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think he means partitioned uimages where you have a kernel + initrd in a single uimage. We don't support that *yet*, but all the needed blocks are there. And we finally get a usecase for having the loadadresses in the machine.conf files :)
>>>
>>> Yah, that's what I wondered as well. I've done this locally,
>>> but nothing out of the box .. so I had nagging doubts!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
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>> What's the IMAGE_FSTYPE for a normal uImage ?
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> None, it's built by the kernel class, not the rootfs class.

and to expand a bit, the machine conf would have:

KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "uImage"

So the kernel class will build and produce a uImage for deployment.

Cheers,

Bruce