On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Guido Guenther wrote: > some of the recent head.S/init_task.c changes break addinitrd. In 2.4.16 > we had two segments which allowed elf2ecoff to put everything (besides > bss) into one text section (dropping REGINFO) in the ecoff image leaving > the data section emtpy. Addinitrd then later merged the initial ramdisk > into that empty data section. Hmm, isn't that broken? I believe an initial RAM disk should be added to an ELF image, before converting it to ECOFF. Not everyone uses ECOFF and ELF is the "canonical" executable format for Linux. Everything else is a derivative. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
