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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:47:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com> To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder On 09/21/2012 05:51 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > I guess I understand the first part, not sure about the "last left off" > bit. > "Multiple sources" means bootloader already points to multiple sources, > right? > This is somewhat out of scope as this would need both, bootloader and > kernel adjustings. > This is about "built in" which means multiple cpios concatenated together > and passed via bootloader as one "file" (initrd). > At least I understand it that way. > The only disadvantage I run into is that once the cpios are concatenated, > I couldn't figure out an easy way how to slice them into separate > cpio/zip archives again. No, that's not the issue. The issue is that there isn't just one initramfs blob, there are (currently) *TWO*... one loaded by the bootloader and one compiled into the kernel. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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