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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

  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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