kangkai / meta-preos

A Yocto layer to generate Pre-OS initrd image

meta-preos

A Yocto layer to generate Pre-OS initrd image

How-to use

Put meta-preos in your yocto/poky dir, as below:

$ tree -L 1
.
├── bitbake
├── documentation
├── LICENSE
├── meta
├── meta-hob
├── meta-preos
├── meta-skeleton
├── meta-yocto
├── meta-yocto-bsp
├── oe-init-build-env
├── oe-init-build-env-memres
├── README
├── README.hardware
└── scripts

9 directories, 5 files

Then you can use below command to build out Pre-OS initramfs image:

$ bitbake preos-image

For detailed Yocto usage guide, please refer the official site.

Why not using some existing minimal distro

• It's highly customized;
• We do not include GPLv3 packages;
• It's not busybox based, instead we're picking progs/utils from coreutils, util-linux, procps etc. packages;