[yocto] Yocto with Initial RamFS
Brian Smucker
bds at bsmucker.eu.org
Thu May 29 08:07:11 PDT 2014
Hi,
Was wondering why this has not been answered. Maybe it is too dumb of a
question? If so, let me know or point me to some documentation.
Thanks.
Brian
On 5/23/2014 11:37 AM, Brian Smucker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an initial ramfs image that I want to convert to Yocto. That is
> in addition to the main yocto-based custom distro.
>
> The initial ram fs is a tiny image based on uclibc (poky-tiny) and
> having busybox and two other compiled apps. The main file system is
> eglibc-based.
>
> How is this sort of thing typically done in the Yocto world? Since the
> toolchain is totally different for the initial ramfs, do I need to
> have another distro and totally different directory for creating the
> initialramfs, giving two different distros and yocto directories? Or
> can I somehow do it under the umbrella of one Yocto distro?
>
> I would like some feedback on how this should be done.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
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