From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 01:46:33 -0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030309044633.GC9359@conectiva.com.br> References: <1046990052.18158.121.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030306221136.GB26732@gtf.org> <20030306222546.K838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1046996037.18158.142.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030306231905.M838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1046996987.17718.144.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200303070715.IAA27138@fire.malware.de> <1047041676.20793.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Mueller , Russell King , Jeff Garzik , Robin Holt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Alan Cox Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1047041676.20793.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Em Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0000, Alan Cox escreveu: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:15, Michael Mueller wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has > > a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no > > way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP > > stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4 > > still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space > > help. > > Just glue the initrd to the kernel. This is not rocket science arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c Simple utility to make a single-image install kernel with initial ramdisk for Sparc tftpbooting without need to set up nfs. Copyright (C) 1996 Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz) Pete Zaitcev endian fixes for cross-compiles, 2000. - Arnaldo