[yocto] [meta-poky][PATCH] poky-tiny: Switch to using kernel 4.4 and busybox for init

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 07:17:50 PDT 2016


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 7 April 2016 at 08:05, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> busybox based init system is available and used in many
>> other distributions e.g. buildroot, therefore use that
>> combination with mdev gives a scalable image and chance
>> to execute sysvinit scripts as well, adding nothing to
>> image size.
>
>
>>
>> +VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "initscripts"
>> +VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_keymaps = "keymaps"
>> +DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED += "sysvinit"
>
>
> Do you really want to have sysvinit removed from DISTRO_FEATURES if you're
> claiming this lets you support init scripts?
>

 Scripts would be fine, however the minimal
image boots fine with above and the scripts add about 15K compressed.
thats why its removed



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