From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:34:38 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC/PATCH] linux: add external initramfs options In-Reply-To: <1401138097-11024-1-git-send-email-guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar> References: <1401138097-11024-1-git-send-email-guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar> Message-ID: <20140609153438.0de69bcb@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Guido Mart?nez, On Mon, 26 May 2014 18:01:37 -0300, Guido Mart?nez wrote: > This patch allows building the kernel with an external initramfs. This > is useful in cases where one wants to generate the kernel and rootfs > with BR, and the kernel needs to contain an initramfs different to the > rootfs. > > The path specified can be a cpio archive or a directory, just like > the kernel config. The path is specified w.r.t. BRs topdir, and made > absolute since the kernel builds in another directory. > > Signed-off-by: Guido Mart?nez Since I agree with the feedback from Arnout, I'll mark this as Rejected in patchwork. There's no point in duplicating each and every kernel configuration option at the Buildroot level. Just make sure to tune your kernel configuration properly, and pass it to Buildroot as the kernel configuration file. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com