[oe] Building a rootfs, without building a kernel

[David Baird]

2008/6/24 Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>:
> 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?

I have been using this pattern in my BBMASK:

    BBMASK = "(linux-ml403-slab-2.6.x_git[.].*)"

and then I made up my own task and image .bb files to establish what
files I want in my rootfs.  I would also appreciate suggestions on a
better way to do what to do this.