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manuals: improve initramfs details

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- Create a new entry in the glossary
- Add implementation details
- Replace the mention of "init ramdisk" by "initramfs¨
  whenever possible
- Remove obsolete and duplicate information
- Fix spacing issues in the Sphinx code

(From yocto-docs rev: 952c7e6dee49532705b2c162f4728e635c38df3f)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Michael Opdenacker
2022-09-23 14:30:56 +02:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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documentation/migration-guides/migration-2.4.rst
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when "pam" is in :term:`DISTRO_FEATURES`.
- The ``switch_root`` program is now packaged in a separate
"util-linux-switch-root" package for small initramfs images that
"util-linux-switch-root" package for small :term:`Initramfs` images that
do not need the whole ``util-linux`` package or the busybox
binary, which are both much larger than ``switch_root``. The main
``util-linux`` package has a recommended runtime dependency (i.e.
documentation/migration-guides/migration-3.2.rst
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.. _migration-3.2-initramfs-suffix:
initramfs images now use a blank suffix
Initramfs images now use a blank suffix
---------------------------------------
The reference initramfs images (``core-image-minimal-initramfs``,
The reference :term:`Initramfs` images (``core-image-minimal-initramfs``,
``core-image-tiny-initramfs`` and ``core-image-testmaster-initramfs``) now
set an empty string for :term:`IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX`, which otherwise defaults
to ``".rootfs"``. These images aren't root filesystems and thus the rootfs
documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-3.4.rst
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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 3.4
- Kernel-related enhancements:
- Support zstd-compressed modules and initramfs images
- Support zstd-compressed modules and :term:`Initramfs` images
- Allow opt-out of split kernel modules
- linux-yocto-dev: base AUTOREV on specified version
- kernel-yocto: provide debug / summary information for metadata
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ The following corrections have been made to the LICENSE values set by recipes:
Other license-related notes:
- When creating recipes for Python software, recipetool will now treat "BSD" as "BSD-3-Clause" for the purposes of setting LICENSE, as that is the most common understanding.
- Please be aware that an initramfs bundled with the kernel using :term:`INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE` should only contain GPLv2-compatible software; this is now mentioned in the documentation.
- Please be aware that an :term:`Initramfs` bundled with the kernel using :term:`INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE` should only contain GPLv2-compatible software; this is now mentioned in the documentation.
Security Fixes in 3.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
documentation/migration-guides/release-notes-4.0.rst
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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.0
- New :ref:`overlayfs <ref-classes-overlayfs>` and
:ref:`overlayfs-etc <ref-classes-overlayfs-etc>` classes and
``overlayroot`` support in the initramfs framework to make it easier to
``overlayroot`` support in the :term:`Initramfs` framework to make it easier to
overlay read-only filesystems (for example) with
`OverlayFS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverlayFS>`__.
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.0
- Kernel-related enhancements:
- Allow initramfs to be built from a separate multiconfig
- Allow :term:`Initramfs` to be built from a separate multiconfig
- Make kernel-base recommend kernel-image, not depend (allowing images containing kernel modules without kernel image)
- linux-yocto: split vtpm for more granular inclusion
- linux-yocto: cfg/debug: add configs for kcsan
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.0
- FIT image related enhancements:
- New ``FIT_SUPPORTED_INITRAMFS_FSTYPES`` variable to allow extending initramfs image types to look for
- New ``FIT_SUPPORTED_INITRAMFS_FSTYPES`` variable to allow extending :term:`Initramfs` image types to look for
- New ``FIT_CONF_PREFIX`` variable to allow overriding FIT configuration prefix
- Use 'bbnote' for better logging
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ New Features / Enhancements in 4.0
- volatile-binds: SELinux and overlayfs extensions in mount-copybind
- gtk-icon-cache: Allow using gtk4
- kmod: Add an exclude directive to depmod
- os-release: add os-release-initrd package for use in systemd-based initramfs images
- os-release: add os-release-initrd package for use in systemd-based :term:`Initramfs` images
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-base: add support for graphene
- gpg-sign: Add parameters to gpg signature function
- package_manager: sign DEB package feeds