[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/9] linux: enable initrd/initramfs support when cpio rootfs is chosen

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Dec 29 17:00:58 UTC 2013


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:34:59 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > ~/projets/marvell/mvebu$ grep INITRAMFS_SOURCE .config
> > CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="../rootfs-armv7/images/rootfs.cpio"
> > 
> > So yes, I *really* want to keep the cpio format option :-)
> 
> Ah, OK, that's indeed a valid use-case. I had forgotten about
> externally-built kernels.
> 
> But then, unless you're building without modules, you'd have to rebuild
> your rootfs.cpio everytime you rebuild your kernel, no?

I will my kernel without modules, indeed.

Thanks!

Thomas
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