Rob Landley wrote:
>
> Er, make that objcopy, not objdump.
>
> Sane, maybe not. Something people want to do (and under the mistaken
> assumption I know more about initramfs then they do, have asked me how), yes.
>
> It always boils down to "do you have a vmlinux image lying around? Doing
> this with a bzImage _is_ brain surgery", and has yet to get beyond that
> question. I had about half of a script worked out for this, once...
>
If it can be done today on a vmlinux then it can be done the same way
with the mechanism I have proposed. Period, full stop.
> You can also supply an external initramfs image through the initrd mechanism,
> but this is unpleasant to do with some bootloaders (or lack of bootloaders).
> Plus it doesn't remove the old one, and wasting space makes embedded
> developers itch.
In thory one could create an extended bzImage format which could handle
a concatenated, and easily replaceable, initrd, but if it's done on
vmlinux today it would make a *lot* more sense to have it be done on the
vmlinux and nothing else.
-hpa
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