From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:22:56 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit master 1/1] initramfs: update help text In-Reply-To: (Grant Edwards's message of "Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:46:58 +0000 (UTC)") References: <20100626054529.9E7CE81E0B@busybox.osuosl.org> <87aaqh38vi.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <87hbkp3sfz.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards writes: >> How about just using the tarball output instead? Grant> When building an initramfs into a kernel, a tarball isn't one of the Grant> options that's accepted by the kernel build system. No, but you could extract the tarball (as root or using fakeroot) and point CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to it. But yes, providing a way to generate the cpio archive without building a kernel would be nicer. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard