Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:25:07 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:15:28PM +0100, Andreas Ferber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:55:34PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > > I would think that is a good idea but I am not sure that is what is planned > > / will happen. Keeping it outside would have the advantage that a newer > > partition recognizer (or whatever other code) can be applied to any > > existing kernel version (that supports initramfs). > > This could be done anyway: just replace the initramfs image built by > the kernel build with anotherone built from another source tree. It > would be helpful though if the tools were distributed both standalone > and included into the kernel tree.
If the kernel is going to build an initramfs option, it also needs a way to be given one. The issue I'm thinking of is I know of a few platforms where the initramfs archive will have to be part of the 'zImage' file (much like they do for ramdisks now).
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