[Arm-dev] Changes for the next armhfp release/images

Fabian Arrotin arrfab at centos.org
Tue Mar 27 08:16:10 UTC 2018


On 27/03/18 09:42, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 26/03/18 17:43, Uli Middelberg wrote:
>>
>> Am 26.03.18 um 16:32 schrieb Fabian Arrotin:
>>> Well, I don't think we ever got such request, but can be easily done :
>>> appliance-creator will create the image, but it's then easy to extract
>>> what we need/want with virt-tar-out/virt-copy-out :-)
>> I've written some scripts which automatically compose vendor firmware,
>> vendor/mainline kernel and a root filesystem for some ARM boards which
>> aren't supported officially. In the past I've ripped the root filesystem
>> contents from the images you've provided for the BananaPi.
>>> The only question I have is the following one then : one consolidated
>>> RootFS that would include /boot ? as for the actual (and new) images we
>>> have /boot a separate partition, so I guess you mean the whole thing as
>>> a RootFS ?
>>>
>> Yes, the whole thing including /boot.
>>
>> For the board setup, I prefer a single partition layout as most of the
>> u-boot firmware images are able to read from ext4 filesystems.
>>
>> If you have installed more then one OS for your board, it's easier to
>> handle them.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Uli   
>>
> 
> That works for me, so let me already build such RootFS with the tool, so
> that you can validate that it works and we'll then be ready for that
> additional change for the next release.
> 

Just quickly built a .img and extracted / through virt-tar-out.
Can you validate that it's what you wanted/needed ?
https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/images-testing/CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RootFS-Minimal.tar.gz

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