Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Jul 2001 04:34:52 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems |
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Helge Hafting wrote: > I am fine with "You have to use initrd (or similiar) _if_ you want this > feature." > But please don't make initrd mandatory for those of us who don't > need ACPI, don't need dhcp before mounting disks and so on.
I've always thought it would be neat to do:
cat bzImage initrd.tar.gz > vmlinuz rdev --i-have-a-tarball-piggyback vmlinuz
Linking into the image is easy for hackers, but why not make it scriptable and super-easy for end users? x86 already has the rdev utility to mark a kernel image as having certain flags. It could even be a command line option, "inittgz" or somesuch, telling us that a gzip-format tarball immediately follows the end of our ELF image.
I wonder if any bootloader mods would be needed at all to do this... AFAICS you just need to make sure the kernel doesn't trample the piggyback'd data.
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