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-rw-r--r--common/recipes-bsp/rmc/boards/nucgen6/POSTINSTALL.sh7
-rw-r--r--documentation/rmc/README15
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/common/recipes-bsp/rmc/boards/nucgen6/POSTINSTALL.sh b/common/recipes-bsp/rmc/boards/nucgen6/POSTINSTALL.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bec3be42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/recipes-bsp/rmc/boards/nucgen6/POSTINSTALL.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# NUC Gen 6 specific retouch after RMC deployment
+
+# The generated inittab from OE build causes error messages:
+# "auth.err getty[615]: tcgetattr: Input/output error"
+# in /var/log/messages because NUC Gen 6 doesn't have any
+# serial tty. We delete line(s) here on target.
+sed -i '/start_getty.\+ttyS.*/d' /tgt_root/etc/inittab
diff --git a/documentation/rmc/README b/documentation/rmc/README
index ba476b0e..c392eb2d 100644
--- a/documentation/rmc/README
+++ b/documentation/rmc/README
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ following this example, so that RMC recipes can pick up them correctly in build.
| |- board1.fp fingerprint file must be provided (NOTE 1)
| |- BOOTENTRY.CONFIG optional config file for boot entries. (NOTE 2)
| |- INSTALLER.CONFIG optional config file for installer. (NOTE 3)
+ | |- POSTINSTALL.sh optional script hook for installer (NOTE 4)
| |- board_file_1 A file blob specific to the type of board
| |- board_file_2 An another file specific to the type of board
| |- ...more files
@@ -153,6 +154,13 @@ Installer simply ignores any errors in RMC deployment stage.
The name of this config file is what installer looks up first, so it must be
INSTALLER.CONFIG.
+Note 4:
+At the end of RMC deployment during installation, RMC installer queries a script
+file POSTINSTALL.sh from RMC database file, and execute it when query is
+successful on the running board. This hook provides developers almost ultimate
+flexibility to retouch what have been deployed on the target. There are some
+steps still can override results from this hook for boot entries and KBOOTPARAM.
+
Enable RMC Feature
@@ -236,7 +244,8 @@ This is a combo example with all supported configuration data for NUC Gen 6
product. It shows two boot entries in bootloader menu when you boot image on NUC
Gen 6 product, with "NUC Gen6" in entry titles. There shall no any "console=" in
/proc/cmdline when you boot with either of two "NUC Gen6"entries. We designed it
-this way because there is no accessible tty port on NUC Gen 6 with housing.
+this way because there is no accessible tty port on NUC Gen 6 with housing. The
+post-install hook is also provided in this example.
This example also includes a global kernel cmdline fragment KBOOTPARAM. Content
of KBOOTPARAM shall be at the end of /proc/cmdline no matter which boot entry
@@ -256,6 +265,10 @@ A directory /etc/mylib/ is created and a file "mylib.conf" is there. The content
of that file shall be what we put in mylib.conf in
common/recipes-bsp/rmc/boards/nucgen6
+POSTINSTALL.sh shows how we get rid of an error message caused by no serial
+console available on NUC Gen 6, without creating another static board
+configuration.
+
EXAMPLE 4: For validation only
T100 (32bit):
common/recipes-bsp/rmc/boards/T100-32bit