Tyson D Sawyer wrote: > It would seem that using a standardized ELF kernel loading mechanism > doesn't have to be incompatible with a cpio archive for populating an > initramfs. Load the ELF kernel, load the cpio image, pass the kernel > any needed args and jump to it. This doesn't seem radically different > from the kernel finding other resources while initializing. The cpio > archive is just an other resource in the system that the kernel uses.
I guess that with this plan we loose the idea that a kernel is _just_ and ELF image like any other. ...but don't we loose that if we are pruning ELF images also? Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer iRobot Corporation Senior Systems Engineer Military Systems Division [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robots for the Real World 603-532-6900 ext 206 http://www.irobot.com
