[yocto] initramfs support in Yocto
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Mon Mar 5 08:41:18 PST 2012
On Monday 05 March 2012 12:50:03 Joshua Immanuel wrote:
> Which means that the initramfs contains the entire rootfs filesystem
> including the user space applications and its related libraries. In my
> case, the size of initramfs comes to 158 MB gziped to 66 MB. Most of the
> files in that are not needed for initramfs.
The recommendation here would be to use a separate recipe to produce the
intramfs image - we have an example of this in recipes-core/images/core-image-
minimal-initramfs.bb. This way you can fully control the content of the
initramfs independent of your root filesystem.
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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