[RESEND] Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it

Hi, this is the updated version with following changes as suggested by Len and Yinghai: - spelling corrections - macro hiding in header files - splitting up patches There shouldn't be any functional changes since the last version. I guess the only part missing is a more explicit ack from L

Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it

Should still apply on latest Linux tree, I can resubmit if not. Would be great if hpa can push this into a x86 branch to get this into linux-next and into Linus' tree with the next merge window. Thanks, Thomas Dmesg output of a quick test: FACP ACPI table found in initrd [kernel/firmware/ac

Early cpio decoder and ACPI table override via initrd making use of it

This is based on the early cpio decoder from hpa. The first patch is exactly the patch (41750d31fc9599fd81763e685) from git repo: kernel/git/hpa/linux-earlyinitramfs. Ony the Makefile was slightly adjusted to latest Linus kernel (3.6.0-rc3). Because of the special requirements hpa mentioned, I gav