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

[Alejandro Hernandez]

Certainly, I can set that up as one of my ToDo features for this release.


On 11/22/2017 02:42 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 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.
>