From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: allow own initramfs to be specified
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:21:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090727162148.4ec3c25b@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248702330-28741-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de>
Le Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:45:30 +0200,
Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> a ?crit :
> 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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2009-07-27 13:45 [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: allow own initramfs to be specified Daniel Mack
2009-07-27 14:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2009-07-27 16:00 ` Daniel Mack
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