[oe] Building a rootfs, without building a kernel

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Tue Jun 24 21:01:44 UTC 2008


Koen Kooi wrote:
> 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 ;)

Sadly, this does not build all the dependencies needed for the image and 
I am really lazy.

Philip
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