From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] compiling kernel
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:34:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <532B50D0.7030100@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395101926704-65501.post@n4.nabble.com>
On 18/03/14 01:18, raj wrote:
> Hi Arnout,
>
> Thanks much for your reply...
> I want to compile kernel and root file system separately for couple of
> reasons:
>
> 1. I want application developer to just use prebuilt kernel binary + rootfs
> and run some script to create full Image so that, they don't need to have
> kernel source files.
>
> could you give some clarity on creating separately file system and passing
> boot args to kernel to use the file system located in the dram.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but perhaps you should look into
unionfs-fuse. That allows you to boot a standard rootfs and then mount
the developer's additions on top of it.
>
> 2. I can compile kernel without the "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk
> (initramfs/initrd) support", so that it has only the kernel image. How do I
> built the file system image?
Look in buildroot's filesystem options menu.
Regards,
Arnout
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Raj
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-20 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-25 23:08 [Buildroot] compiling kernel Basavaraj Hiremath
2014-02-26 7:48 ` Mike Zick
2014-02-26 17:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-03-18 0:18 ` raj
2014-03-20 20:34 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2014-03-21 22:02 ` raj
2014-03-25 22:19 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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