Rob Landley wrote: > > Er, make that objcopy, not objdump. > > Sane, maybe not. Something people want to do (and under the mistaken > assumption I know more about initramfs then they do, have asked me how), yes. > It always boils down to "do you have a vmlinux image lying around? Doing > this with a bzImage _is_ brain surgery", and has yet to get beyond that > question. I had about half of a script worked out for this, once... > If it can be done today on a vmlinux then it can be done the same way with the mechanism I have proposed. Period, full stop. > You can also supply an external initramfs image through the initrd mechanism, > but this is unpleasant to do with some bootloaders (or lack of bootloaders). > Plus it doesn't remove the old one, and wasting space makes embedded > developers itch. In thory one could create an extended bzImage format which could handle a concatenated, and easily replaceable, initrd, but if it's done on vmlinux today it would make a *lot* more sense to have it be done on the vmlinux and nothing else. -hpa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
