[Buildroot] u-boot .img rootfs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 6 10:48:25 UTC 2012


Le Mon, 5 Mar 2012 20:00:57 -0600,
H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys at visionengravers.com> a écrit :

> I have been using Buildroot to create a rootfs.ext2.gz that works
> great with RedBoot.
> 
> I have a new board that uses U-Boot as the bootloader and it wants
> some kind of .img file for the rootfs.  Can this be created using
> Buildroot? Do I need to do something after the rootfs.ext2.gz is
> created to make the .img file?

Do you have more details, because .img is very generic. Do you have a
pointer to your specific U-Boot configuration? Can you just show why
you think U-Boot needs such as file?

Thanks,

Thomas
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