[oe] Initramfs support?

Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 14:45:17 UTC 2007


Hello Rob,

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 2:10:43 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> I've been trying to figure out how/if OE supports creation of initramfs
> files. There's initramfs-uniboot and friends in initrdscripts, but I'm not
> sure if that is current or useful, as it doesn't seem to be used by
> anything, anywhere.

> Then there's linux-hackndev, which builds a mini-busybox on the fly. But
> that seems a bit hackish..

> Anyone know if there's a good way to have OE create an initramfs archive of
> a bunch of files that I provide?

  Also related:
http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2007/07/modular-initramfs-for-oe.html
http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2007/07/initrd-and-initramfs-with-oe-snippet-1.html

> Cheers!

>     Rob


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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com





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