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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Scott Rifenbark 2016-07-29 14:01:08 -07:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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@ -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>