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76 to check for and handle an empty list, it's smaller and simpler for the kernel
83 default.  To force ramfs, add "rootfstype=ramfs" to the kernel command
90 extracted into rootfs when the kernel boots up.  After extracting, the kernel
95 archive is extracted into it, the kernel will fall through to the older code
102     linked into the linux kernel image.  (The directory linux-*/usr is devoted
106     such as ext2, that needed a driver built into the kernel), while the new
109     kernel's cpio extraction code is not only extremely small, it's also
113     some setup and then returned to the kernel, while the init program from
114     initramfs is not expected to return to the kernel.  (If /init needs to hand
133 The 2.6 kernel build process always creates a gzipped cpio format initramfs
134 archive and links it into the resulting kernel binary.  By default, this
155 Run "usr/gen_init_cpio" (after the kernel build) to get a usage message
164 The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools.  If you specify a
165 directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure
169 from usr/gen_init_cpio.c).  The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is
170 entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also
174 or extracting your own preprepared cpio files to feed to the kernel build
178 or by the kernel build) back into its component files:
210 work.  The Linux kernel cpio extractor won't create files in a directory that
217 If the kernel has initrd support enabled, an external cpio.gz archive can also
218 be passed into a 2.6 kernel in place of an initrd.  In this case, the kernel
225 the GPL licensed Linux kernel binary).
227 It can also be used to supplement the kernel's built-in initramfs image.  The
230 a single kernel image with task-specific initramfs images, without recompiling.
243 The "klibc" package (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc) is
273   qemu -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -initrd test.cpio.gz /dev/zero
284   http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1538.html
288   http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1587.html
306 2) The cpio archive format chosen by the kernel is simpler and cleaner (and
317 4) Since this is a kernel internal format, it could easily have been
318    something brand new.  The kernel provides its own tools to create and
323    supported on the kernel side"):
325       http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1540.html
329       http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1550.html
330       http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0112.2/1638.html
338 kernel falls back to legacy boot code that is reached only if initramfs does
354 packages to drop into a kernel build.
357 The kernel's current early boot code (partition detection, etc) will probably
359 kernel build.