[yocto] Stuck to build zImage-initramfs

[JH]

Thanks Zoran, I did see that link and your post to run mkimage. Did
you get zImage-initramfs? I have to admit, I lost in that long email
discussion with different approaches, I tried all set up, but there is
no zImage-initramfs to be generated, files built in deploy/images just
could not be used to run uuu on imx6 RAM.

There is post for add KERNEL_INITRAMFS = "-initramfs", it looks like
very close to generate zImage-initramfs, but I could still not get it
:-(.

Thank you very much.

On 7/9/19, Zoran Stojsavljevic <zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please, read the following thread:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-July/041680.html
>
> Zoran
> _______
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:43 PM JH <jupiter.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been stuck to build zImage-initramfs for weeks. I've read Yocto
>> latest document, but still failed to generate the initarmfs to run on
>> RAM. I added following statements in local.conf:
>>
>> UBOOT_CONFIG = "ram"
>> INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE = "1"
>> DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " ram"
>> IMAGE_FSTYPES_append = " cpio.xz"
>>
>> It built to following images:
>>
>> dev-image.rootfs.cpio.xz
>> u-boot.imx-ram
>> zImage.bin
>>
>> If I extract the dev-image.rootfs.cpio.xz, it contains zImage at boot
>> directory.
>>
>> What I need is the zImage-initramfs to contain the rootfs in initramfs
>> format.
>>
>> I see there is document ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt, but it did not
>> mention how to generate zImage-initramfs.
>>
>> There is core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb, but it cannot be run:
>>
>> $ MACHINE="imx6evk" DISTRO="imx6evk" bitbake core-image-minimal-initramfs
>> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'core-image-minimal-initramfs'
>> core-image-minimal-initramfs was skipped: incompatible with host
>> arm-oe-linux-gnueabi (not in COMPATIBLE_HOST)
>>
>> Could any one help what I am missing here and how to build the
>> zImage-initramfs?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> - jh
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