@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO
used for an initial RAM filesystem that is passed to the kernel
by the bootloader.
+if BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO
+
choice
prompt "Compression method"
default BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_NONE
- depends on BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO
help
Select compressor for cpio filesystem of the root filesystem.
If you use the cpio archive as an initial RAM filesystem, make
@@ -47,3 +48,13 @@ config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ
endchoice
+config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE
+ bool "Create U-Boot image of the root filesystem"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_UBOOT_TOOLS
+ help
+ Add a U-Boot header to the cpio root filesystem. This allows
+ the initramfs to be loaded with the bootm command in U-Boot.
+
+ The U-Boot image will be called rootfs.cpio.uboot
+
+endif # BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO
@@ -31,4 +31,25 @@ define ROOTFS_CPIO_CMD
cd $(TARGET_DIR) && find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc > $@
endef
+# mkimage supports arm avr32 blackfin m68k microblaze mips mips64 nios2 powerpc ppc sh sparc sparc64 x86
+# KERNEL_ARCH can be arm64 arc arm avr32 blackfin m68k microblaze mips nios2 powerpc sh sparc i386 x86_64 xtensa
+# For arm64, arc, xtensa we'll just keep KERNEL_ARCH
+# For mips64, we'll just keep mips
+# For i386 and x86_64, we need to convert
+ifeq ($(KERNEL_ARCH),x86_64)
+UIMAGE_ARCH = x86
+else ifeq ($(KERNEL_ARCH),i386)
+UIMAGE_ARCH = x86
+else
+UIMAGE_ARCH = $(KERNEL_ARCH)
+endif
+
+$(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.cpio.uboot: $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.cpio host-uboot-tools
+ $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/mkimage -A $(UIMAGE_ARCH) -T ramdisk \
+ -C none -d $<$(ROOTFS_CPIO_COMPRESS_EXT) $@
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE),y)
+ROOTFS_CPIO_POST_TARGETS += $(BINARIES_DIR)/rootfs.cpio.uboot
+endif
+
$(eval $(call ROOTFS_TARGET,cpio))