Re: [meta-arago][master][PATCH v2] ti-core-initramfs: Shrink size of initramfs

dang it...  wrong list.



On 1/9/2026 12:22 PM, Ryan Eatmon via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> License-Update: Moving away from packagegroup-core-boot.bb removed the
> LICENSE setting.  Just adding it back in.
> 
> It looks like we were modelling this initramfs off of the wrong example
> from poky.  This setup produces a much smaller initramfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Eatmon <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2: Add missing License-Udate.
> 
>   .../packagegroup-ti-core-initramfs.bb         | 12 ++++---
>   .../recipes-ti/initramfs/ti-core-initramfs.bb | 33 +++++++++----------
>   2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/packagegroup-ti-core-initramfs.bb b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/packagegroup-ti-core-initramfs.bb
> index 86b69aff..c759808c 100644
> --- a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/packagegroup-ti-core-initramfs.bb
> +++ b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/packagegroup-ti-core-initramfs.bb
> @@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
>   SUMMARY = "Minimal initramfs for boot requirements"
>   
> -require recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-boot.bb
> +LICENSE = "MIT"
> +
> +PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
> +
> +inherit packagegroup
>   
>   TI_INITRAMFS_KERNEL_MODULES ?= ""
>   
>   RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
>       ${TI_INITRAMFS_KERNEL_MODULES} \
> +    ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} \
> +    base-passwd \
>       initramfs-framework-base \
>       initramfs-module-udev \
>       initramfs-module-nfsrootfs \
> -    nfs-utils \
> -    nfs-utils-client \
>   "
> -
> -RDEPENDS:${PN}:remove = "grub-efi kernel"
> diff --git a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/ti-core-initramfs.bb b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/ti-core-initramfs.bb
> index 1a102d82..223fef7a 100644
> --- a/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/ti-core-initramfs.bb
> +++ b/meta-ti-bsp/recipes-ti/initramfs/ti-core-initramfs.bb
> @@ -7,29 +7,26 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Image meant to probe boot essential modules\
>   
>   LICENSE = "MIT"
>   
> -inherit core-image
> -
> -IMAGE_NAME = "ti-core-initramfs"
> -
> -IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX = ""
> +INITRAMFS_FSTYPES = "cpio cpio.xz"
>   
> -IMAGE_FEATURES:remove = "package-management"
> +INITRAMFS_MAXSIZE = "65536"
>   
> -INITRAMFS_FSTYPES = "cpio cpio.xz"
> +IMAGE_NAME = "ti-core-initramfs"
>   
> -IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}"
> +export IMAGE_BASENAME = "${IMAGE_NAME}"
>   
>   PACKAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-ti-core-initramfs"
>   
> -export IMAGE_BASENAME = "${IMAGE_NAME}"
> +# Ensure the initramfs only contains the bare minimum
> +IMAGE_FEATURES = ""
> +IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
>   
> -IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR = "1.1"
> +# on the kernel image.
> +PACKAGE_EXCLUDE = "kernel-image-*"
> +
> +IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}"
> +IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX ?= ""
> +IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
> +IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
>   
> -# To further reduce the size of the rootfs, remove the /boot directory from
> -# the final image this is usually done by adding RDEPENDS_kernel-base = ""
> -# in the configuration file. In our case we can't use this method. Instead we
> -# just wipe out the content of "/boot" before creating the image.
> -ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "empty_boot_dir; "
> -empty_boot_dir () {
> -	rm -rf ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot/*
> -}
> +inherit image

-- 
Ryan Eatmon                [email protected]
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