[Buildroot] initramfs disabling

[Buildroot] initramfs disabling

[Sergey Naumov]

Hello.

I want to ask why disabling the option about initrd integration into
the kernel image leads to disabling of initrd support in the kernel.
The description of this option tells nothing about disabling initramfs
support. What I should do if I want separate hand-made initramfs
image? Unfortunately, it leads to editing internal makefiles of
buildroot. Can you introduce "FORCE" option in buildroot that forbid
buildroot to edit kernel and uclibc configuration?

Thanks.

Sergey Naumov.

[Buildroot] initramfs disabling

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:05:58 +0400
Sergey Naumov <sknaumov@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to ask why disabling the option about initrd integration into
> the kernel image leads to disabling of initrd support in the kernel.
> The description of this option tells nothing about disabling initramfs
> support. What I should do if I want separate hand-made initramfs
> image? Unfortunately, it leads to editing internal makefiles of
> buildroot. Can you introduce "FORCE" option in buildroot that forbid
> buildroot to edit kernel and uclibc configuration?

It's true that there no reason why we should forcefully disable the
initramfs in the kernel configuration when initramfs has not been
selected as the root filesystem: we should keep the kernel
configuration as it is, leaving the possibility for the user to
manually manage his initramfs.

Does the following fix works for you :

 http://git.buildroot.net/~tpetazzoni/git/buildroot/commit/?h=for-2010.11/dont-force-no-initramfs&id=350e6d2ca811cb5fedc007f92aa6c17fbbca82d0

 ?

Regards,

Thomas
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