Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Actually this is trivial to do by using a file in initramfs. > If we need something in a well defined format anyway.
Yes, constructing an additional initramfs, or modifying an existing one to hold such data is certainly a possibility. I think there are mainly three choices: 1) the command line 2) an initramfs 3) some other, yet to be defined data structure 1) is relatively easy to do, but leads to more little parsers and doesn't scale too well. 2) scales well but has a relatively high overhead (constructing/scanning a cpio archive, etc., particularly for items needed early in the boot process), and does not work too well for discontiguous data structures. 3) is of course what we should try to avoid :-) So far, I also think that using an initramfs, or at least something that looks like one, even if not normally used as such, is the thing to try first. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
