[OE-core] [PATCH] initramfs-live-boot-tiny: Create the initramfs-live-boot-tiny recipe

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Wed Nov 22 20:42:41 UTC 2017


On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Alejandro Hernandez
<alejandro.hernandez at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> The original initramfs-live-boot recipe RDEPENDS on udev, which is ok since
> the init script relies some of its functionality on udevadm and such,
> but on core-image-tiny-initramfs the init script simply drops to shell
> after a basic setup, so udev is not needed.
>
> This patch splits up an initramfs-live-boot-tiny recipe which does not
> use udev, but uses busybox-mdev instead, eudev installed about 600
> extra Kilobytes to core-image-tiny-initramfs userspace, by avoiding to
> install eudev we achieve an even smaller footprint (almost 40% smaller).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Hernandez <alejandro.hernandez at linux.intel.com>

It'd be nice if you could migrate to initramfs-framework as it
provides mdev module and has part of this already done.

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