Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Loading initrd over serial line | Date | Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:45:47 +0100 |
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pavel@suse.cz said: > This patch should load initrd over serial line. On r38xx it works for > me, but kernel crashes after that and I do not know who to blame. It > needs some ifdefs and it needs making some functions public...
> You'll need program that looks for 'X' and sends block of data to use > this.
Cute, if somewhat sick.
It'd be far nicer to use ramfs, though. What I'd like to do is compile a statically-linked combination of tar(1) and rz(1), which will untar the tarball it receives into a fresh ramfs.
Q: If you don't have initrd, where do you put this binary?
A: In the kernel. Provide it with a set of pages which are to be put into the user-space side of process #1, rather then exec'ing /sbin/init.
Also cute, and definitely sicker :)
-- dwmw2
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