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authorSaul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>2011-05-26 11:32:06 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-05-27 00:47:07 +0100
commitc9205e01262f8a14c4a602642dba4583b9e7c746 (patch)
tree82a815af28665a3df4eafbb8ede352b24adef234 /meta/conf/bitbake.conf
parent14fb3ff04c59e6a21bf39463073cffecd2e5b858 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-c9205e01262f8a14c4a602642dba4583b9e7c746.tar.gz
bitbake.conf: change IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE to soft (?=) default
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/conf/bitbake.conf')
-rw-r--r--meta/conf/bitbake.conf11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 35fd6f864f..d30738597a 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -347,13 +347,14 @@ IMAGE_BASENAME = "${PN}"
IMAGE_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}"
IMAGE_LINK_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}-${MACHINE}"
-# This option allows for a precentage overage of the actaul image size rather than a
-# fixed extra space
+# This option allows for a percentage overage of the actual image size rather than a
+# fixed extra space, this is space needed for initial startup and basic operations.
IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR ?= 1.3
# This option allow for adding addition space in K above and beyond what the
-# IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR might add. To set a fixed size then overrideing IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE
-# with the max size one wants should do the trick
-IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
+# IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR might add. This space is for additional packages, user data, ...
+# To set a fixed size then overrideing IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE with the max size one wants
+# should do the trick
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE ?= "0"
EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS = ""