initfs: packaging: Create a package to tell init to run from RAM

Adding the obmc-phosphor-initfs-ram package will add the text
overlay-filesystem-in-ram to /init-options-base which will cause
init to not mount the rwfs.  This allows building an image for
booting over the network that will completely run from RAM,
while allowing copy-files-to-ram to the kernel command line via
bootargs will allow whitelisted files read from the rwfs before
startup and allows them to be saved back to the rwfs via update.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@us.ibm.com>
2 files changed
tree: 316456f9a0e50053ba63c853543aeba5daea19e5
  1. meta-openbmc-bsp/
  2. meta-openbmc-machines/
  3. meta-phosphor/
  4. yocto-poky/
  5. .gitignore
  6. .templateconf
  7. openbmc-env
  8. README.md
README.md

OpenBMC

Build Status

Building

OpenBMC uses Yocto/Open-Embedded for a build system, which supports an out-of-tree build. It is recommended that you create an empty directory somewhere to hold the build. This directory will get big.

On Ubuntu 14.04 the following packages are required to build the default target

sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libsdl1.2-dev texinfo gawk chrpath diffstat

On Fedora 23 the following packages are required to build the default target:

sudo dnf install -y git patch diffstat texinfo chrpath SDL-devel bitbake
sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"

To start a build:

cd <builddir>
. <repodir>/openbmc-env
bitbake obmc-phosphor-image