Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:09:28 +0000 | From | Kent Robotti <> | Subject | Initramfs and TMPFS! |
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>I'm not subscribed, so sorry if this doesn't fall into the original >thread. I'm curious as to why the kernel has to include the decoder - >why you can't just run a self-extracting executable in an empty >initramfs (with a preset capacity if needs be).
The kernel already includes gunzip for itself, so it just needs an unarchiver (tar or cpio) which should just add a few Kb.
Every self-extracting executable would require the builtin code to extract itself.
The kernel code to recognize and execute the self-extracting code, would probably be the same size as an unarchiver (tar or cpio).
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