Improve Ubuntu rootfs-only usage documentation
There is a common request from ARM and other partners to improve the current documentation about use cases which the user wants to use the Ubuntu rootfs (nano, developer or full desktop) with a custom kernel and bootloader, without the need of using a hwpack and linaro-
Most of the needed tools are already in place in case people want to create an official support for linaro images, but it's still lacking a lot of information for users wanting to manually hack and use the rootfs images available at each release.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Ricardo Salveti
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Ricardo Salveti
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Ricardo Salveti
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trunk
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
12.07
- Started by
- Ricardo Salveti
- Completed by
- Ricardo Salveti
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
[dzin July 5, 2012] Not started, moved to the backlog
[dzin July 17, 2012] ARM req, target 12.07
[dzin Aug 1, 2012] Did not make it into 12.07
[rsalveti, Aug 1, 2012] This was done for 12.07.
Meta:
Headline: Improved documentation for uses cases where just the rootfs is needed is available at https:/
Acceptance: Wiki page created at wiki.linaro.org. Documentation improved at snapshots and releases pointing out the created wiki page.
Work Items
Work items:
Explain better what are the different rootfs images we're providing, and that they don't contain any hw specific artifacts: DONE
Explain how to consume just the rootfs, either as a chroot environment or to be used with NFS: DONE
Explain how to create a custom hwpack, and make the board support available at the linaro-media-create tool: DONE
Explain and show how someone could create and deploy the rootfs with a custom kernel and bootloader: DONE
