El Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:16:58AM -0500 Robert P. J. Day ha dit: > > a while back, i ran across a book(?) which had a great graphical > representation of how the kernel was compiled, showing how the > initially compiled source was compiled with piggy.o, how the initramfs > was added to the mix, things were compressed, until you ended up with > the final bootable kernel image. and now, i can't remember where i > saw it. (it was a single diagram, going left to right showing how > pieces got added one at a time.) > > anyone know what i'm talking about? Chapter 5 ("Kernel Initialization") of the "Embedded Linux Primer" could be an option -- Matthias Kaehlcke Embedded Linux Engineer Barcelona "The only important thing Windows does better than Debian is implementing the win32 platform" .''`. using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' : `. `'` gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ