Re: [docs] Should Poky's "tiny-init.bb" recipe be documented?

On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 08:59 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   Was just perusing the meta-poky layer and noticed the recipe
> "tiny-init.bb", which claims:
> 
>   SUMMARY = "Poky-tiny init"
>   DESCRIPTION = "Basic init system for poky-tiny"
> 
> But the poky-tiny distro defines its init manager with:
> 
>   # enable mdev/busybox for init
>   POKY_INIT_MANAGER:poky-tiny = "mdev-busybox"
> 
> and "tiny-init" is not a valid value for INIT_MANAGER, so what is the
> purpose of tiny-init.bb, and should it be documented?

Looking at the git history, tiny-init was a custom init for the
poky-tiny distro, added in 2012. In 2016 poky-tiny changed to use
busybox's init system by default. I don't see any other references to
tiny-init, so we should probably retire it.

Best regards,

-- 
Paul Barker

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