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

On Wed, 24 Jun 2026, Paul Barker wrote:

> 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.

  i will let someone else handle that.

rday