2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 74f7e1baa8..7d831523ad 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-connman-conf = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-connman-gnome = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-consolekit = "Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-core-image-base = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-core-image-initramfs-boot = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-core-image-minimal = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-core-image-minimal-dev = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-core-image-minimal-initramfs = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-initramfs-boot.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-initramfs-boot.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7258944751
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-initramfs-boot.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+SUMMARY = "Basic initramfs to boot a fully-featured rootfs"
+DESCRIPTION = "Small initramfs that contains just udev and init, to find the real rootfs."
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+INITRAMFS_SCRIPTS ?= "initramfs-framework-base initramfs-module-udev"
+
+PACKAGE_INSTALL = "${INITRAMFS_SCRIPTS} ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils} base-passwd"
+
+# Ensure the initramfs only contains the bare minimum
+IMAGE_FEATURES = ""
+IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
+
+# Don't allow the initramfs to contain a kernel, as kernel modules will depend
+# on the kernel image.
+PACKAGE_EXCLUDE = "kernel-image-*"
+
+IMAGE_FSTYPES = "${INITRAMFS_FSTYPES}"
+IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX ?= ""
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"
+
+inherit image