Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:52:47 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma |
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Alain Knaff wrote: > > Maybe another solution would be to make the choice of builtin ramdisk > compression user-selectable, and default to no compression at all. >
That might just make most sense.
> Indeed, in the default case, the builtin ramdisk is so small (950 bytes > uncompressed), that it probably wouldn't really matter anyways. > > The only case where it matters is for developers of embedded systems who > want to replace the builtin ramdisk with a fully populated one, because > their boot loader does not support loading a "normal" initrd. > > These people are (hopefully) knowledgeable enough to pick an appropriate > compressor (but there's still the issue of notifying them about the > change, obviously). > > Btw, what *is* the standard work flow of supplying your own built-in > initramfs? Do such developers usually supply a directory tree, or do > they already cpio it before supplying it to the kernel? Or do they even > compress it themselves?
The normal thing is that you point the kernel build to an out-of-the-kernel-build-tree directory.
-hpa
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