From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 25253E00B68; Thu, 29 May 2014 08:07:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RDNS_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [216.86.168.183 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * 1.3 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS Received: from mxout-08.mxes.net (unknown [216.86.168.183]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEBDE00A2F for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 08:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (unknown [50.52.11.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 138CB50A85 for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 11:07:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <53874D1F.8090504@bsmucker.eu.org> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:07:11 -0700 From: Brian Smucker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <537F9583.50407@bsmucker.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <537F9583.50407@bsmucker.eu.org> Subject: Re: Yocto with Initial RamFS X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:07:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Was wondering why this has not been answered. Maybe it is too dumb of a question? If so, let me know or point me to some documentation. Thanks. Brian On 5/23/2014 11:37 AM, Brian Smucker wrote: > Hello, > > I have an initial ramfs image that I want to convert to Yocto. That is > in addition to the main yocto-based custom distro. > > The initial ram fs is a tiny image based on uclibc (poky-tiny) and > having busybox and two other compiled apps. The main file system is > eglibc-based. > > How is this sort of thing typically done in the Yocto world? Since the > toolchain is totally different for the initial ramfs, do I need to > have another distro and totally different directory for creating the > initialramfs, giving two different distros and yocto directories? Or > can I somehow do it under the umbrella of one Yocto distro? > > I would like some feedback on how this should be done. > > Thanks, > > Brian