[Buildroot] [git commit] initramfs: fix boot with dynamic /dev

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Sep 1 16:18:51 UTC 2011


On Thursday 01 September 2011 09:18:42, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >  - Clearly this should be refactored so we don't duplicate the same
> >
> > stuff in initramfs.mk and cpio.mk.
> 
> In fact I think the initramfs.mk and cpio.mk should be merged. Instead
> of having initramfs.mk generating the "initramfs file list", we could
> just have cpio.mk generate the cpio archive and then have the kernel
> configuration tuned to include this cpio archive as an initramfs. I
> haven't thought too much about the details of this but I remember we
> already discussed this in the past and it's probably doable.

 That actually sounds simpler than the way it's done now :-)

 If I find the time, I'll take a look at it.


 Regards,
 Arnout

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