From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752622Ab2IYDrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:47:21 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:7842 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750785Ab2IYDrT (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:47:19 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,478,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="148671689" Message-ID: <50612945.6050906@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:47:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Renninger CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com, Fenghua Yu , 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 References: <1346318957-5831-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <1346318957-5831-2-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <50463399.70506@zytor.com> <201209211451.12523.trenn@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <201209211451.12523.trenn@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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