[oe] Building a rootfs, without building a kernel

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

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?
> 

How about just including a kernel recipe for a similar device?

That's what I tend to do just to get a root filesystem which I can use
for development.

Martyn

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