[oe] Building a rootfs, without building a kernel

[Welch, Martyn (GE EntSol, Intelligent Platforms)]

Ben Lau wrote:
>> Possibly, we should create a dummy kernel bb file since this may be
>> the best solution for the general case of people building images
>> without a working kernel bb file. 
>> 
>> Philip
>> 
> 
> I am not quite understand why OpenEmbedded force to generate kernel
> and the dependence would force it to be installed in the user land. As
> the kernel is usually installed on another partition. It should not be
> a part of the file system image.
> 

But any drivers, etc. built as modules would need to be included in the
system's image and that at least would be a dependence.

Martyn

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