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

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Sun Jun 27 13:42:34 UTC 2010


On 2010-06-27, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> How about just using the tarball output instead?
>
> Grant> When building an initramfs into a kernel, a tarball isn't one of the
> Grant> options that's accepted by the kernel build system.
>
> No, but you could extract the tarball (as root or using fakeroot) and
> point CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to it.

An extracted tarball isn't one of the options either.
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE can be pointed at either a cpio archive or the
source file list.

> But yes, providing a way to generate the cpio archive without building a
> kernel would be nicer.

It works fine the way it is.  What's the reason for disabling the
buildign of a cpio file source list?

-- 
Grant



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