On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:17:40PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:30:37PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > I am still thinking that why can't we change initrd building process > > (Be it mkinitrd or mkdumprd depending on distriution). Whole idea is > > that while building an initrd/initramfs for the first kernel, one will > > ask user for kdump kernel (if user wishes to load kdump kenrel through > > initrd) and then it will generate kdump kenrel's initrd and pack into > > first kernel's initrd. > > > > So steps would look something like this. > > > > - mkinitrd takes second kernel's vmlinux as argument > > - mkinitrd runs "makedumpfile -g" on debug version of first kernel's vmlinux. > > - mkinitrd generates the initramfs for kdump kernel and packs output > > of "makedumpfile -g" into that. > > - mkinitrd packs statically linked kexec, kdump kernel vmlinux/bzImage, > > and kdump kernel initramfs into first kernel's initramfs. > > > Agreed, this is exactly what happens right now. Isn't there some sort of a circular dependency going on here? As I understand it the vmlinux binary already contains the initramfs as built-in data (at least that's what I use here for initramfs). It makes more sense if you guys are creating an _initrd_ image (that's what mkinitrd originally did AFAIK) and supply it to the boot-loader. -- Dan Aloni XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il
