From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
Date: 13 Jan 2002 12:53:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ofjyqb7t.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1oqmm$is3$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <a1oqmm$is3$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> This is an update to the initramfs buffer format spec I posted
> earlier. The changes are as follows:
Comments. Endian issues are not specified, is the data little, big
or vax endian?
What is the point of alignment? If the data starts as 4 byte aligned,
the 6 byte magic string guarantees the data will be only 2 byte
aligned. This isn't good for 32 or 64 bit architectures.
I do like having a c_magic that at least allows us to change things
in the future if necessary.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-13 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 8:04 initramfs buffer spec -- second draft H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 19:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-13 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 19:53 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-01-13 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 20:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-13 21:59 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 22:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-14 18:31 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-15 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 20:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 6:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16 19:19 ` [offtopic] duplicate mails (was: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft) Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 6:34 ` initramfs buffer spec -- second draft Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 6:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16 20:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-01-15 15:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 20:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 23:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 21:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-15 23:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 23:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-16 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 3:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 3:25 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 2:43 ` Aaron Lehmann
[not found] <200201120804.AAA19339@cesium.transmeta.com>
2002-01-13 2:00 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 4:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 19:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
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