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From: "Stefan Fröberg" <stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Udev on a live CD system does not appear to populate /dev
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:07:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A28C61.1060006@petroprogram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A1EE50.4010008@mind.be>

13.11.2012 8:53, Arnout Vandecappelle kirjoitti:
> On 08/11/12 17:29, Stefan Fr?berg wrote:
>> If you ever want to use the maximum compression method supported by
>> modern kernels (XZ compression)
>> then change that initramfs generation command to this:
>>
>> find .  -not \( -path "./boot" -prune \) -print0 | cpio --null -ov
>> --format=newc
>>   | xz --check=crc32>  /livecd/initramfs.xz
>>
>> Without that --check=crc32 parameter you won't be able to boot
>> XZ-compressed initramfs.
>
>  It would be good to have this in buildroot.  Care to add a config option
> BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ?  Using host-xz, of course, since not all
> systems
> have xz installed.
>

Sure, no problem.

So far I have only done initramfs my own manual way but I will take this
weekend a look how buildroot does its
own initramfs.

Regards
Stefan

>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-13 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 14:02 [Buildroot] Udev on a live CD system does not appear to populate /dev Antony Vennard
2012-11-06 18:37 ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-06 23:46   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-07 17:56     ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-08  9:56       ` Antony Vennard
2012-11-08 12:35         ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-08 16:02           ` Antony Vennard
2012-11-08 16:20             ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-08 16:29             ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-13  6:53               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-13 18:07                 ` Stefan Fröberg [this message]
2012-11-17 22:54                 ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-18 20:02                   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-18 20:11                     ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-20 23:42                       ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-08 21:17             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-09 12:20               ` Antony Vennard
2012-11-09 13:01                 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-09 13:09                   ` Antony Vennard
2012-11-09 15:04                     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-09 13:11                 ` Stefan Fröberg
2012-11-08 15:12         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-08 21:09       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-11-06 23:26 ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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