[oe] Building a rootfs, without building a kernel

[Koen Kooi]

Philip Balister wrote:
> I am trying to build a powerpc root file system for a xilinx ml403
> board. Since we do not have a working kernel build for this machine, I
> tried commenting out the PREFERRED_PROVIDER for virtual/linux. The build
> then tries to build linux-rt. I tried ASSUME_PROVIDED for the kernel
> when the preferred provider is not commented out and it still tries to
> build the kernel.
>
> Looking at the dependency graphs seems to suggest the requirement comes
> from the do_rootfs task.
>
> Does anyone know how to build an image, without building a kernel for a
> machine?

bitbake -b foo-image.bb is what I use, since I'm lazy ;)