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Message-ID: <50463399.70506@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:00:09 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lenb@...nel.org,
robert.moore@...el.com, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
initramfs@...r.kernel.org, bigeasy@...utronix.de, vojcek@...n.pl,
eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
yinghai@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder
On 08/30/2012 02:29 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
>
> Add a simple cpio decoder without library dependencies for the purpose
> of extracting components from the initramfs blob for early kernel
> uses. Intended consumers so far are microcode and ACPI override.
>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201203261651.29640.trenn@suse.de
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
I was trying to figure out if there is a way to do what you want
(support for multiple files) without the problems of the callback
interface. I think it is actually fairly straightforward; we need a
prefix iterator (so you can give it a string like "kernel/acpi/" rather
than a full filename) and it needs to be able to accept a "last" pointer
so it can resume scanning at the point it last left off. That should be
a pretty trivial change.
The other thing we presumably want to do -- and this is generic -- is to
be able to handle multiple sources for the initramfs; at the very least
there is built in vs provided from the boot loader. I had originally
intended to just handle that by calling the earlycpio function once per
block, but the "last left off" bit makes that a little harder. Need to
think about that a little bit.
I am guessing that this may not need to be something we need from the
very beginning, or am I wrong?
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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