On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>wrote:

> This won't be a short discussion, but a very welcome one. I've talked a lot
> about separating the image generation a bit more. But that's not that easy.
> In the end running "ptxdist images" to get on final blob must still be
> possible.
> We're actually working on some separate tool to create the images, that can
> be used separately or by ptxdist to create the images. The main problem we
> have here is configuration. Defining the images in kconfig is rather
> awkward and not really flexible. However, while we think, we now have
> something nice to define images, I still need to work out how to integrate
> that with ptxdist...
> Any comments on what you would like to see there are welcome.
>
> Something that I'd like to see is a way to have a kernel+initramfs image
to be created as a package. As it stands now, I create a kernel platform
image and a rootfs platform image, and because the rootfs image contains
kernel modules not contained within the initramfs image, I end up having
the kernel built twice with two separate kernel source trees that are
basically the same.

Jon