From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)
Date: 10 Jan 2002 16:15:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1larf$afl$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020109213221.02dd5f80@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20020110013856.A26151@devcon.net> <20020110024240.GW13931@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> <200201102155.g0ALtkA22362@snark.thyrsus.com>
Followup to: <200201102155.g0ALtkA22362@snark.thyrsus.com>
By author: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Er, 'rdev' is an x86-only program, so lets not add common functionality
> > to that. And I'd rather not throw something onto the end of the
> > 'zImage' since I just got done removing annoying/broken things like
> > that.
>
> You want it to be an ELF section then?
>
initrd. It's already supported on all architectures; initramfs uses
the same buffer-transfer architecture, which means you can use
unmodified bootloaders.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-08 19:24 [RFC] klibc requirements Greg KH
2002-01-08 20:37 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-09 4:23 ` Felix von Leitner
2002-01-09 4:34 ` initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Greg KH
2002-01-09 6:10 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 7:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 9:33 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-09 10:00 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-09 4:51 ` [RFC] klibc requirements Greg KH
2002-01-09 5:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 6:09 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 7:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 6:30 ` Rusty Russell
2002-01-10 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 15:24 ` Matthias Kilian
2002-01-10 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 14:15 ` Felix von Leitner
2002-01-09 14:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-01-09 14:51 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-09 10:38 ` initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 15:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 16:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-09 16:26 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 16:29 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 16:48 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09 21:15 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2002-01-09 21:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 21:40 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 21:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 22:15 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-10 0:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 0:38 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-10 2:42 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 14:09 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-10 22:24 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-11 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-09 22:12 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2002-01-09 13:23 ` [RFC] klibc requirements Juan Quintela
2002-01-09 14:57 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-15 3:08 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-01-15 11:55 ` Felix von Leitner
2002-01-15 14:54 ` David Lang
2002-01-15 16:15 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-15 18:06 ` David Lang
2002-01-15 18:36 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-16 18:36 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-16 7:50 ` Albert D. Cahalan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-09 17:54 initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Torrey Hoffman
2002-01-09 18:06 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-09 18:28 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 18:49 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-09 20:05 Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 20:43 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09 20:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 21:01 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09 22:07 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09 21:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 23:30 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-12 5:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 20:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-09 20:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 22:41 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-09 22:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 11:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-09 23:29 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-09 23:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 10:35 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-12 5:36 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-12 18:11 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-09 20:25 Torrey Hoffman
2002-01-10 0:02 ` Tom Rini
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[not found] ` <fa.p5gg3pv.1iiscrg@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-10 11:22 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
[not found] <fa.gs2ktfv.1r00h12@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.kj79fuv.1angmqd@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-10 17:13 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-10 17:28 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 17:43 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 17:47 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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