[yocto] Pure initramfs image

Michael Habibi mikehabibi at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 11:09:07 PST 2015


Oh well that's easy. I figured it was already added because it was in the
deployed directory, but I guess the tasks behave differently.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> 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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