[Buildroot] [git commit master 1/1] initramfs: update help text

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Sun Jun 27 03:46:58 UTC 2010


On 2010-06-26, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:

> >> comment "initramfs requires a Linux kernel to be built"
> >> depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
>
> Grant> Hey, wait a minute.
>
> Grant> I use this option and I don't use Buildroot to build my kernel.
>
> Grant> Can somebody explain why this functionality is being removed?
>
> How about just using the tarball output instead?

When building an initramfs into a kernel, a tarball isn't one of the
options that's accepted by the kernel build system.

-- 
Grant




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