[oe] initramfs only supported in x86?

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Nicolas Dechesne
<nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Adam Lee <adam.yh.lee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone, I thought I'd compare the performance of booting
>> rootfs from MMC vs ramdisk (the way Android is doing it). Some says it
>> may possibly take longer in ramdisk because the rootfs has to be first
>> loaded into memory. I'd like to test it out myself.
>>
>> So I discovered core-image-minimal-initramfs, and thought it was
>> exactly what I needed. However the build doesn't go far, because its
>> dependency initramfs-live-install [1] only seems to support x86:

live images are for x86 only because it uses syslinux and friends.
However you can choose any other image to become initramfs image and
bunsle it into kernel

you have to use

INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "your-initramfs-image"
INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE = "1"


>>
>> COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64).*-linux"
>>
>> Is this the limitation of current OE? or am I just looking at the wrong corner?
>
> i recently had to build an initrd too, and notice that as well... so i
> am not sure exactly what that means. I am glad you asked... however if
> you want to test an initrd, you can simply build *any* image and make
> sure to build the 'cpio' from IMAGE_FSTYPES. you can then use the
> generated cpio archive as an inited.