[OE-core] Solving a circular dependency issue between the main image and initramfs

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

pon., 16 mar 2020 o 15:03 Ernst Sjöstrand
<ernst.sjostrand at verisure.com> napisał(a):
>
> Hi!
>
> I have done something very similar, here's what I did.
>
> My ramdisk is just a vanilla cpio.
> My kernel is just vanilla zImage.
>
> My main image does "inherit magic" and magic.bbclass does something like this, where create_custom_fitimage has a lot of kernel-fitimage.bbclass copied out.
> do_magic () {
> create_custom_fitimage
> install fitImage.bin ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot/fitImage
> }
> do_magic[depends] += "my-ramdisk:do_image_complete  virtual/kernel"
> addtask magic before do_image after do_pre_image_task
>
> It does read a lot of stuff from deploy but so does the main kernel-fitimage.bbclass so I don't think that's a problem.
>
> Regards
> //Ernst
>

There are probably many workarounds for this, but if we can't do this
with upstream OE-core then something is broken/missing upstream and we
should fix it. This is what I'm trying to do. I'm just looking for the
right way. I don't want to carry some non-upstreamable workaround over
to every other project I'm working on - optimally this should be made
part of OE-core/meta-security.

Best regards,
Bartosz Golaszewski