From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
robert.moore@intel.com, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
initramfs@vger.kernel.org, bigeasy@linutronix.de, vojcek@tlen.pl,
eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:47:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50612945.6050906@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209211451.12523.trenn@suse.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-30 9:29 Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-08-30 9:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder Thomas Renninger
2012-09-04 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 12:51 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-25 3:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-30 9:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: Override arbitrary ACPI tables via initrd for debugging Thomas Renninger
2012-08-30 9:34 ` Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 13:28 Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it Thomas Renninger
2012-09-21 13:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: Add early cpio decoder Thomas Renninger
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