>> But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially
>> (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially
>> a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages;
>In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember
>using a mkboot utility to combine a kernel+initrd into a single blob
>that u-Boot could boot. I don't remember the exact syntax and I
>remember a gotcha or two (such as, the kernel had to be uncompressed)
>but I did eventually get it to work.
>Perhaps such a combined blob (two actually, one for the
>kernel+installer and one for the kernel+initrd) could be included in
>the distro for use on the RPi without any changes to the rest of the
>ARMedSlack distro? It appears that U-Boot was recently ported to RPi.
On my dockstar I use uImage and uinitrd so there's no need to bundle things in
a single blob.
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