[yocto] poky-tiny, boot and filesystems

2013-12-18 Thread r10kindsofpeople
I've been beating my head for a few days now, and would love a little guidance. Acknowledging that there are multiple ways to skin the cat, my immediate goal is to reduce the boot time, presumably using poky-tiny. I have poky-tiny building for my hardware under dora. I have it booting on

Re: [yocto] poky-tiny, boot and filesystems

2013-12-18 Thread Rudolf Streif
John, What is your actual problem? You appended the tiny-init recipe and your changes do or do not get put into the rootfs? If you could post your recipe then folks can look at it. As far as boot time is concerned, you need to distinguish boot loader and kernel boot from user space. It looks as

Re: [yocto] poky-tiny, boot and filesystems

2013-12-18 Thread r10kindsofpeople
Rudi, From a first view, my problem is that my embedded Yocto-Linux device takes too long from the application of power to the time that it is first able to a) signal the user that the device is waking up and b) respond to events from I/O (Ethernet and CAN). (40+ seconds prior to shifting to