Created attachment 859 [details] Image types tab pages from design document When it comes to image types, the check boxes checked by default match the values of the IMAGE_FSTYPES variable for the selected machine and distro. The image types available for selection should not include image types that are incompatible with the machine and distro selections. For example, if I have selected Beagleboard as my machine, I should not see a checkbox for the 'vmdk' image type. I don't think this feature to detect incompatible image types exists at the moment in Bitbake. The 'live' image type should be broken down into 'hddimg' and 'iso', following Darren Hart's recommendation: "Finally, to directly address the question about hddimg and iso, I agree that Hob should treat them separately as they are very different in one critical respect (...) That said, keep in mind that the ISO image can also built as a hybrid image (which I hope we can just make the default - or maybe it already is, haven't looked) which will boot on both USB sticks and CDs. Still, I think separating hddimg and isohybrid in Hob makes the most sense." I've attached the relevant pages of the design document for reference.
Cristian, Please refresh your memory on this bug and see whether we need to open a separate bug against bitbake to support this.
This bug has 2 parts: 1. Display only those image types that make sense 2. Split live image type We will not do 1, only 2.
Hi Valentin, Can you please provide some updates regarding this bug? Thanks!
Patch for the part 2 sent openembedded-core. I will create a separate bug for the first part.
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5256 was created for: 1. Display only those image types that make sense
patch merged: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f11cb8dd2899ce7c95ed1a829d5f0ec40d7137c2
Verified fixed in 505114c13d29799a25379f7ce720d632616d8776