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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2016-07-29 14:01:08 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-18 23:50:45 +0100
commit85ce753de66ea267a5a0e572f0e06464ff8252f6 (patch)
tree7ec7f64493c393865706db6e072c161b1625398d /documentation
parent4fc256d14516361c3235c932027fac765250a231 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-85ce753de66ea267a5a0e572f0e06464ff8252f6.tar.gz
ref-manual: Updates to INITRAMFS_IMAGE and INITRAMFS_FSTYPES
Fixes [YOCTO #10012] Applied review comments. (From yocto-docs rev: 1862d03c1916c34c29c1aea86fbb6ee4c7f34cca) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index c7f1122fd4..9c97ac1fb2 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -6081,7 +6081,9 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>,
is "cpio.gz".
The Linux kernel's initramfs mechanism, as opposed to the
- initrd mechanism, expects an optionally compressed cpio
+ initial RAM disk
+ <ulink url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd'>initrd</ulink>
+ mechanism, expects an optionally compressed cpio
archive.
</para>
</glossdef>
@@ -6105,7 +6107,10 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
filesystem recipe (e.g.
<filename>core-image-sato</filename>).
See the <filename>core-image-sato-initramfs.bb</filename>
- recipe, which is created, for an example recipe.
+ recipe for an example initramfs recipe.
+ To select this recipe to provide the initramfs,
+ set <filename>INITRAMFS_IMAGE</filename> to
+ "core-image-sato-initramfs".
<note>
The initramfs image recipe should set
<link linkend='var-IMAGE_FSTYPES'><filename>IMAGE_FSTYPES</filename></link>