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SubjectRe: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
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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