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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] bootwrapper: compatibility layer for old U-Boots
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On Thu Mar 15 13:02:34 EST 2007 David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:59:04PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> 
> > This seems like a problem to me.  Premably, INITRAMFS will be used
> > more & more often so this check is going to fail more & more often.
> > We'll end up havng to keep moving the addr it loads at further & further
> > back or define platform_ops.vmlinux_alloc() and have the issue I
> > mentioned.
> 
> Err... won't the initramfs image go in the same place as the initrd
> image, not as part of the vmlinux.

That depends on if you use CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD or CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
(or both).

The later puts the cpio in the .init.ramfs section of the kernel.

milton