From c9b3c34049d78b2a7998e22b260c10d7b975436c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:14:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml: updated the filesystem Updated the downloading the filesystem section to have an inclusive list of image profiles and a reference to more information on that. Also included more explanation of the two types of image tarballs. (From yocto-docs rev: 14965cbedd719beb6191771c6dcb92742f4229bf) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- .../yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml | 20 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml index 459d7471ca..35eebbcd8c 100644 --- a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml +++ b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml @@ -502,22 +502,28 @@
Downloading the Filesystem - The filesystem image has two forms. - One form is an ext3 filesystem image. - The other form is a tarball of the filesystem and is booted using user-space NFS. - Here are the respective forms: + The filesystem image has two tarball forms: ext3 and + tar. + You must use the ext3 form when booting an image using the + QEMU emulator. + The tar form can be flattened out in your host development system + and used for Yocto Project build purposes. - yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>.rootfs.ext3.bz2 - yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>.rootfs.tar.bz2 + yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>-<release>.rootfs.ext3.bz2 + yocto-image-<profile>-qemu<arch>-<release>.rootfs.tar.bz2 Where: <profile> is the filesystem image's profile: - sdk, sato, minimal, or lsb. + lsb, lsb-dev, lsb-sdk, minimal, minimal-dev, sato, sato-dev, or sato-sdk. + For information on these types of image profiles, see + Reference: Images in the Yocto Project Reference Manual. <arch> is a string representing the target architecture: x86, x86-64, ppc, mips, or arm. + + <release> is the version of Yocto Project.