Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:38:07 -0500 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs |
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On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P <ppandit@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an > > initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly > > compressed initial ramdisk image. Because - $ make install - does > > not pass on the selected compression choice to the dracut(8) tool, > > which creates the initramfs file. dracut(8) generates the image > > with the default compression, ie. gzip(1).
I've been building kernels, including with initramfs, and I don't have dracut(8) installed? In today's git:
$ find . -type f | xargs grep -i dracut ./tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf:#POST_INSTALL = ssh user@target /sbin/dracut -f /boot/initramfs-test.img $KERNEL_VERSION ./tools/testing/ktest/examples/kvm.conf:# that uses dracut for its initfs. The POST_INSTALL will be executed ./tools/testing/ktest/examples/kvm.conf:POST_INSTALL = ${SSH} /sbin/dracut -f /boot/initramfs-test.img $KERNEL_VERSION ./Documentation/ABI/testing/evm: Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt. (A sample dracut
> - Is anyone working on fixing up Kconfig/dracut(8) so the correct > decompression method is used?
I've been messing with this area and maight be interested if I had any idea what this guy was talking about?
Rob
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