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