Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > > How do you solve this ? I have myself, when creating the kernel package, > > > extracted all the part of the kernel build tree needed to embed the > > > initrd in the kernel and put it in a separate > > > (kernel-build-<kver>-<flavour>) package. > > > > > > Would this work for you also, or would it be problematic ?
The mipsel kernel is converted from ELF to ECOFF, so it's a bit more complicated there. > > That might be an option, although I would like to avoid handling it > > that way. Thiemo has started writing a tool capable of adding a > > ramdisk to a "normal" kernel image. It does not yet fully work, but > > it looks quite good already and I hope that we will have it fully > > working within the next weeks. It should work in its last incarnation, together with Guido's patch for the tip22 boot memory/boot parameters (Still untested). > There is already a tool doing that for sparc (piggyback it is called i > think), and i was thinking about doing such a tool for powerpc too, but > i was afraid i would have to redo all the same thing as is in the kernel > already, thus duplicating effort. I preferred more flexible disk/tftp ELF bootloaders over an in-kernel solution. For mipsel, we can avoid the whole ECOFF related problems this way. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
