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Hongxu Jia 161ff4d39d syslinux: improve isohybrid to process extra sector count for ISO 9660 image
Due to commit [cdrtools-native: fix booting EFI ISO live failed]
applied to improve mkisofs to fix nsectors exceeds 0xffff situation
which set selection criteria type = 2 and save extra nsectors to
vendor unique selection criteria

In following case, add 64MB extra space to bootable image efi.img,
and the partition table of EFI is truncated to 32M

$ echo 'IMAGE_FSTYPES:pn-core-image-minimal = " live"' >> conf/local.conf
$ echo 'MACHINE_FEATURES:append = " efi pcbios"' >> conf/local.conf
$ echo '# 64MB extra space to bootable image efi.img' >> conf/local.conf
$ echo 'BOOTIMG_EXTRA_SPACE = "65535"' >> conf/local.conf
$ bitbake core-image-minimal
$ fdisk -l tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64.rootfs.iso
...
Device                                                                 Boot Start    End Sectors  Size Id Type
tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64.rootfs.iso1 *        0 376831  376832  184M  0 Empty
tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64.rootfs.iso2        120  65654   65535   32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

After applying this patch to process extra sector count, the partition
table of EFI is 90.3M

$ fdisk -l tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64.rootfs.iso
...
Device                                                                 Boot Start    End Sectors  Size Id Type
tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64.rootfs.iso1 *        0 376831  376832  184M  0 Empty
tmp/deploy/images/qemux86-64/core-image-minimal-qemux86-64.rootfs.iso2        120 185151  185032 90.3M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

[1]https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/readings/boot-cdrom.pdf

(From OE-Core rev: b4e112ed7e6ba5a6c6df530d696485a588831851)

Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-04-29 09:59:01 +01:00
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meta syslinux: improve isohybrid to process extra sector count for ISO 9660 image 2025-04-29 09:59:01 +01:00
meta-poky poky-bleeding: Drop debug code 2025-04-10 11:07:15 +01:00
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meta-skeleton multilib-example.conf: explicitly overwrite the BASELIB 2025-01-11 18:37:14 +00:00
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scripts scripts/cve-json-to-text.py: fix missing -o option 2025-04-29 09:59:01 +01:00
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Poky

Poky is an integration of various components to form a pre-packaged build system and development environment which is used as a development and validation tool by the Yocto Project. It features support for building customised embedded style device images and custom containers. There are reference demo images ranging from X11/GTK+ to Weston, commandline and more. The system supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a standalone toolchain and SDK suitable for IDE integration.

Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added in the form of BSP layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way. Many layers are available and can be found through the layer index.

As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation, the 'meta-yocto' layer which has configuration and hardware support components. These components are all part of the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded ecosystems.

The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a reference manual which can be found at https://docs.yoctoproject.org/

OpenEmbedded is the build architecture used by Poky and the Yocto project. For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website.

Contribution Guidelines

Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.

Where to Send Patches

As Poky is an integration repository (built using a tool called combo-layer), patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams:

OpenEmbedded-Core (files in meta/, meta-selftest/, meta-skeleton/, scripts/):

BitBake (files in bitbake/):

Documentation (files in documentation/):

meta-yocto (files in meta-poky/, meta-yocto-bsp/):

If in doubt, check the openembedded-core git repository for the content you intend to modify as most files are from there unless clearly one of the above categories. Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current git repository branch in question.

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