From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to load initramfs only on-demand?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 20:36:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160313043612.GA6757@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAsE_uddEZxNuZwcxadQwumJja0A7PmHHmLPcgcKtGyaXpEwNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:29:08PM +0800, Woody Wu wrote:
> My question is, is there such a kernel parameter to do the job? Probably there
> is a non-parameter solution like passing?the initramfs address in a register
> when a boot loader transfer control to the kernel, but this is not an option to
> me since my boot loader (u-boot) does not support doing this.?Thanks.
You have the source to your bootloader, I suggest you fix that up to
support this if you want it, not much the kernel can do on it's own
here, sorry.
good luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-13 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-12 8:29 How to load initramfs only on-demand? Woody Wu
2016-03-13 4:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-03-13 5:37 ` Woody Wu
2016-03-14 12:30 ` Woody Wu
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