Re: [ptxdist] new image rules (Was: PTXdist 2014.05.0 released)

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> >>> What's the difference between the old and the new image rules and why
> >>> should one use the one or the other?
> >>
> >> First of all, long-term I'd like to remove the old rules. So use the new
> >> rules and yell here if you have a use-case that the new rules cannot
> >> handle.
> > 
> > We are using ubi and ubifs here and I tried it today after migration to
> > ptxdist 2014.06.0. It does not work yet, I get a kernel panic after a
> > factory reset with a new image. Digging deeper into this needs time I do
> > not have at the moment. I'll have a look later if you don't mind.
> 
> I had time for this today and I found the reason for this: with the old
> rules there was PTXCONF_IMAGE_UBI_ROOT_VOL_NAME which was set to
> 'rootfs0' here. With the new rules this parameter is gone and instead
> there's a line 'name = "root"' hardcoded in config/images/ubifs.config
> which lead to not mounting this and not finding that and so on. I could
> fix this by adapting our uboot environment and startup scripts.
> 
> I suppose I could also have copied the config/images/ubifs.config to our
> BSP and edit the name there?

Correct. That's the idea with the new image rules: Not to many options in
the menu, but you can always overwrite the config file in the BSP.

Michael

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