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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

by Alex González
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

We can convert the image-small recipe introduced in the Reducing the root filesystem size recipe into an initramfs, as shown in recipes-core/images/image-small-initramfs.bb here:

DESCRIPTION = "Minimal console-only initramfs image."                            
                                                                                 
PACKAGE_INSTALL= "\                                                              
        base-files \                                                              
        base-passwd \                                                             
        busybox \                                                                 
        sysvinit \                                                                
        initscripts \                                                             
        ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL} \                                             
"                                                                                
                                                                                 
IMAGE_LINGUAS = " "                                                              
                                                                                 
LICENSE = "MIT"                                                                  
                                                                                 
IMAGE_FEATURES = ""                                                              
                                                                                
export IMAGE_BASENAME = "image-small-initramfs"                                  
                                                                                 
IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES} ${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}.u-boot"               
inherit image                                                                    
                                                                                
IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"   

To boot the initramfs as an external file, we stop the target device at the u-boot prompt and do the following:

  1. Configure the network settings:
> env set ipaddr <target-ip-address> ...
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