[yocto] Issues creating /dev/ nodes in an initramfs
ChenQi
Qi.Chen at windriver.com
Wed Oct 22 01:05:05 PDT 2014
On 10/20/2014 02:09 AM, Mitchell Skiba wrote:
> I've been building a kernel with an initramfs, by using
> INITRAMFS_IMAGE to specify a recipe that generates an image as a
> .cpio.gz archive. I've been having issues creating /dev/console (or
> any other device file) in the image. (The 3.14 kernel panics if
> /dev/console is not a character device.)
>
> It seems there is already a way to create dev nodes via the
> IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLE and IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES variables. However this
> mechanism, through the makedevs utility, appears to require the
> building user to have permission to call mknod. (Makedevs ignores the
> return code from the mknod call, so it doesn't outright fail on the
> permissions error, but device files will not be created.)
>
> I've hacked around it in my image recipe by appending a step onto
> do_rootfs, but I'm not too happy with the way I did it. It seems like
> the proper way to fix this is to change the image commands in
> image_types.bbclass. However, each image type would need a different
> way of adding in the special files. (At this point I only care about
> cpio archives for the initramfs.)
>
>
> Does anyone have the current IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLE implementation
> working? (As in, is there something that I have missed?)
>
> I'm considering fixing this by changing the IMAGE_COMMAND_cpio
> function in image_typyes.bbclass to generate a cpio archive with only
> the contents described in IMAGE_DEIVCE_TABLE(S), then use the cpio
> utility's append mode to add in the rootfs contents. (It is simpler to
> create a new archive with a script than it is to append to an existing
> one, so I thought I'd let the cpio utility handle the archive appending.)
> Does this sound like a reasonable approach, and the correct place to
> fix it?
>
>
How about setting USE_DEVFS to "0" in your image recipe?
Regards,
Chen Qi
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