Bug 12619

Summary: generate initramfs for arm, powerpc, and mips
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Stephano Cetola <stephano>
Component: coreAssignee: Stephano Cetola <stephano>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mohamad Noor Alim <mohamad.noor.alim.hussin>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: aaron.chun.yew.chan, apoorv.sangal, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, stephano
Version: 2.4   
Target Milestone: 4.99   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Stephano Cetola 2018-03-22 07:24:26 UTC 
In order for the QA team to test on these hardware platforms, LAVA requires an initramfs for network booting (NFS mounted rootfs). We currently have an initrd for x86, however no equivalent exists for these platforms.
Comment 1 Stephano Cetola 2018-03-22 20:51:15 UTC 
It is generally agreed that this is already possible and just poorly documented (or not at all). I will continue to research this in my "free time".