[Buildroot] [git commit master 1/1] initramfs: update help text

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-26, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=c2a44f158eedf40be3ab3bc3c76f61fe032d7b34
>> > branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
>> 
>> >  comment "initramfs requires a Linux kernel to be built"
>> >  	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
>> 
>> Hey, wait a minute.
>> 
>> I use this option and I don't use Buildroot to build my kernel.
>> 
>> Can somebody explain why this functionality is being removed?
>
> How are you using this functionality without using Buildroot to build
> your kernel ? Are you pointing your kernel configuration to the
> rootfs.initramfs file generated by Buildroot ?

To the rootfs.initramfs_list file, yes.

I suppose I could have buildroot make the cpio archive and point the
kernel at that.

-- 
Grant