Hi... On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > Please note that the image you give qemu (or bootloader) > to use as initrd is *not* formatted using any mkfs. > It's just created with: > > $ find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initramfs.cpio
Yup I am aware of that :) > And the compiled kernel has no support for *any* filesystem. > So, the question is: how are those files formatted? Now that's something I can't answer definitively. I just guess that, somewhere inside kernel code, there is certain code that can't be toggled on or off i.e it is always enabled. And that code, one of them, is tackling this initramfs unpacking. > (Guess the answer is: look at the code) Eventually...well, yes :) -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
