From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx8Ct-0003nl-OT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:05:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx8Cp-00064V-Mw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:05:43 -0400 Received: from indium.canonical.com ([91.189.90.7]:48497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sx8Cp-00064O-Hd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:05:39 -0400 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com ([91.189.90.37]) by indium.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71 #1 (Debian)) id 1Sx8Cp-0003BK-5O for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 03:05:39 +0000 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by loganberry.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E1F2E807E for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 03:05:39 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:57:20 -0000 From: Samuel Bronson Sender: bounces@canonical.com References: <20090629184316.11916.86030.malonedeb@potassium.ubuntu.com> Message-Id: <20120803025721.910.20734.launchpad@wampee.canonical.com> Errors-To: bounces@canonical.com Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 393569] Re: qemu cannot load multiple initramfs archives Reply-To: Bug 393569 <393569@bugs.launchpad.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org ** Tags added: initramfs initrd -- = You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393569 Title: qemu cannot load multiple initramfs archives Status in QEMU: Confirmed Bug description: According to Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt, an initramfs can be populated from multiple cpio archives, which seems like it could be a really useful feature when using QEMU to boot Linux kernels directly, without installing them on the disk image. Unfortunately, QEMU does not support actually loading multiple files into the initrd space (which is also where initramfs archives go). It would be really nice if it did. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/393569/+subscriptions