On 20 Jul 2004, wd at denx.de wrote: > In message <wn5vfgi9arw.fsf at linhd-2.ca.nortel.com> you wrote: >> >> But you don't have to. What ever you can do with the good-old >> initrd image you can do with the new initramfs (really cpio >> archive) image. The main difference is the creation: genext2fs vs >> cpio. > > How do I populate a initramfs with custom device nodes? Without > having root permission, I mean.
You have a point here, I guess with initramfs you have to: - use devfs (which was deprecated in 2.6) - use udev - grok-sysfs-yourself (which is pretty easy) > > And how can I tell a Linux kernel where to find the initramfs data > when they are not linked together? Well, the same way as with the good old-initrd. the initramfs root-fs IS an INITRD in compressed-cpio format (instead of fs format such as ext2). me think I'm still missing something about initrd. Regards -- L.D. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
