From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux.
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:30:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001115163012.B13732@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17l6deey7.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <20001114011331.B1496@codepoet.org> <m1bsvia9bt.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1bsvia9bt.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:59:18AM -0700
On Tue Nov 14, 2000 at 07:59:18AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> All mkelfImage does is the pasting of initrd's, command lines,
> and just a touch of argument conversion code.
You can link in an initrd using linker magic, i.e.
$(OBJCOPY) --add-section=image=kernel --add-section=initrd=initrd.gz
This is done in ppc/boot/Makefile for example. It might be a nice thing
to add a .config option to optionally specify an initrd to link into
the kernel image. Similarly, several architectures have a CONFIG_CMDLINE
which could also do the job (see arch/ppc/config.in for example).
Presumably, by doing such things you could avoid needing to use mkelfImage.
-Erik
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-09 8:18 Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <3A0ABB0C.99075A61@holly-springs.nc.us>
2000-11-11 19:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-11 22:46 ` Adam Lazur
2000-11-12 0:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <20001109113524.C14133@animx.eu.org>
2000-11-11 20:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-11 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 0:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12 0:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 6:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-11 22:11 ` Adam Lazur
2000-11-12 0:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-14 14:49 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-16 17:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-19 2:24 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-19 7:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-19 13:25 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-19 20:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-18 16:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-14 8:13 ` Erik Andersen
2000-11-14 14:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-15 23:30 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2000-11-16 6:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
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