[yocto] [poky] Initramfs not appended to kernel image

[Craig McQueen]

> 
> On 2015-04-20 05:09 AM, Wouter van Rooy wrote:
> > Hi Bruce,
> >
> > First of all, thanks for your answer. It would be a comforting idea to
> > get this initramfs implemented cleanly in my project.
> >
> > On 16-04-15 16:22, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> >> I'm the proud owner of the bugzilla to document this process better,
> >> so let's work through the issues and see if there's a bug, or
> >> something that just isn't clearly described. We are talking about the
> >> 1.6 release here .. so at least the recent changes in kernel.bbclass
> >> processing won't be the cause of the breakage.
> > Correct, to be even more precise I am using the daisy-11.0.0 tag for Poky.
> >> Correct, and this definitely used to work. I can't see anything wrong
> >> by inspection alone, but will launch some builds to see if I can
> >> confirm the behaviour and that variable not making it down into the
> >> function call. Bruce
> > Thanks, I would love to hear the results of your test builds. Just
> > drop me a line if you need anything else from my build environment for
> > reproduction, like log files and such.
> 
> I was traveling last week and am just getting back to this now.
> I wanted to check in to see if your issues are still persisting to see if you
> worked it out in the meantime.

I'm in the process of using the INITRAMFS_IMAGE and INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE feature with the latest from the 'dizzy' branch for Poky, and it seems to be working for me (on BeagleBone Black).

It's been quite a slow process to understand the initramfs mechanism and how to use it in Poky. That's including the initramfs-framework. It would be great to see some documentation for these features.

-- 
Craig McQueen