[yocto] [PATCH 0/1] [linux-yocto-3.0] boot-live.cfg: enable BLK_DEV_INITRD in kernel

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 12-09-19 03:39 PM, Mihai Lindner wrote:
> On 2012-09-19 22:01, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 12-09-19 11:56 AM, Mihai Lindner wrote:
>>> On 2012-09-19 18:43, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>> On 12-09-18 10:46 AM, Mihai Lindner wrote:
>>>>> On 2012-09-18 17:23, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 16:58 +0300, Mihai Lindner wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2012-09-18 16:49, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:21 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 12-09-18 01:59 AM, Mihai Lindner wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Please pull into linux-yocto-3.0, meta.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Adding linux-yocto, Darren and Tom.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This looks fine to me, and we should consider it for all the repositories,
>>>>>>>>> not just 3.0.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Tom/Darren. Any side effects you can think of for this change ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No, but shouldn't it already be there, inherited from base.cfg?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For cedartrail, at least, standard.cfg is used.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> And standard inherits from base, so it should be turned on.  Somehow
>>>>>> it's getting turned off in cedartrail...
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it the final .config file is turned off. Solved it by setting it in boot-live.
>>>>> --Mihai
>>>>
>>>> To follow up on this, is someone taking a closer look at this config
>>>> to see if we can get a root cause for that option being disabled for
>>>> this board ?
>>>>
>>>> I won't be able to poke at it myself for another day or so.
>>>>
>>>> Bruce
>>>>
>>> I'm still digging on this, trying to figure out what cfg files are included / omitted by `configme` and why.
>>> base.cfg is not included, nor stanadrd.cfg it seems.
>>> The list of included cfg files is way to short.
>>
>> That likely means the BSP .scc file is missing and update (i.e. does
>> it still have scc_leaf?) and the tools aren't finding it and auto-generating something to get you up and running.
>>
>> I just checked the meta branch here, and it looks to be updated, but
>> if you look at your build's linux source dir, what's in meta/top_tgt ?
>>
>> Bruce
>>
> In meta/top_tgt i have:
>
> /home/mihai/cedartrail/tmp/work/cedartrail-poky-linux/linux-yocto-3.0.32+git5+46e8fc2bbbe73514e8d99101adaaa373f760ffa7_1+1e79e03d115ed177882ab53909a4f3555e434833-r4.1/linux/meta/cfg/kernel-cache/bsp/cedartrail/cedartrail-standard.scc
>
>
> I've also hit an error, after more verbose runs of ./cedartrail-standard in meta/cfg/scratch/obj/:
>
> ./0-cedartrail-standard-897c5c055888aca397b3ab0d7be9e6fa.sco: line 17: standard_5b57715386592f694588063dd3ec6ebb: command not found
>
> After this the scripts stops.
>

Aha. This definitely breaks the configuration chain (and would throw
a hard error in the 3.4 kernel) and is where the options drop. But this
should no way be specific to this board. I'll get something configured
here, since I need to see this happen in front of me.

Cheers,

Bruce


> Mihai
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>>> --Mihai
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>>>>>> Tom
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>>>>>>> --Mihai
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Added BLK_DEV_INITRD in boot-live.cfg for linux-yocto-3.0, meta branch.
>>>>>>>>>> Cedartrail (at least) cannot boot live from ISO image due to
>>>>>>>>>> BLK_DEV_INITRD missing:
>>>>>>>>>> "VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unkown-block(0,0)"
>>>>>>>>>> Should fix #3050
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [YOCTO #3050]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mihai Lindner<mihaix.lindner at linux.intel.com>
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The following changes since commit bf5ee4945ee6d748e6abe16356f2357f76b5e2f0:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>       meta: rename virto.scc to virtio.scc (2012-08-18 22:09:35 -0400)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>>>>>>>>       git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib mihai/linux-yocto-3.0/meta
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Mihai Lindner (1):
>>>>>>>>>>           boot-live.cfg: enable BLK_DEV_INITRD in kernel
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>      meta/cfg/kernel-cache/cfg/boot-live.cfg |    2 ++
>>>>>>>>>>      1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Mihai Lindner (1):
>>>>>>>>>>       boot-live.cfg: enable BLK_DEV_INITRD in kernel
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>      meta/cfg/kernel-cache/cfg/boot-live.cfg |    2 ++
>>>>>>>>>>      1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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