[yocto] Pure initramfs image

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Thu Dec 3 08:32:53 PST 2015


On 2015-12-03 09:24, Michael Habibi wrote:
> All,
>
> I have interest in creating an image that runs purely in an initramfs space. It seems that overall this shouldn't be too difficult - I can set my IMAGE_FSTYPE to cpio.gz, and as
> long as it's a reasonable size, it shouldn't be an issue to point to it as an initrd. The only quirk is that kernel modules are split out from the rootfs deployment (two separate
> archives). Is there a way to combine the modules directly into the rootfs archive?

Just add the kernel-modules package to your install.  This
will install all of the kernel modules into your rootfs.

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