1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 20086180ac..804b7fd444 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ IMAGE_CMD_squashfs-lzma = "mksquashfs-lzma ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/$
 IMAGE_CMD_tar = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar -jcvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.bz2 ."
 IMAGE_CMD_tar.gz = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar -zcvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.gz ."
 IMAGE_CMD_tar.bz2 = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && tar -jcvf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.bz2 ."
+IMAGE_CMD_cpio = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio)"
+IMAGE_CMD_cpio.gz = "cd ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} && (find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -c -9 >${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cpio.gz)"
 EXTRA_IMAGECMD = ""
 EXTRA_IMAGECMD_jffs2 = "--pad --little-endian --eraseblock=0x40000"
 EXTRA_IMAGECMD_squashfs = "-le -b 16384"