[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: allow own initramfs to be specified
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 27 14:21:48 UTC 2009
Le Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:45:30 +0200,
Daniel Mack <daniel at caiaq.de> a écrit :
> The initramfs source location is removed from the given Linux kernel
> configuration at the moment and only filled in again in case BR2 is
> asked to provide a cpio for that feature.
>
> This patch allows to specify an own location for such an image file.
Just curious, what's the use case for this ?
Buildroot already allows to integrate the root filesystem it generated
into the initramfs. It seems your patch allows to integrate a different
initramfs that the one generated by Buildroot. Is this correct ? If so,
what's your use case ?
Thanks!
Thomas
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