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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-06 16:44:14 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-06 16:45:01 +0100 |
commit | f0ef03985130287c6c84ebe69416cf790e6cc00e (patch) | |
tree | 3ecb04cc4d82e5fc3ae5f1747e6da172ae8cbcb7 /usr/initramfs_data.gz.S | |
parent | 16097439703bcd38e9fe5608c12add6dacb825ea (diff) | |
parent | 31bbed527e7039203920c51c9fb48c27aed0820c (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/textedit
Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
block/blktrace.c
kernel/irq/handle.c
Semantic conflict:
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/initramfs_data.gz.S')
-rw-r--r-- | usr/initramfs_data.gz.S | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr/initramfs_data.gz.S b/usr/initramfs_data.gz.S new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..890c8dd1d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/initramfs_data.gz.S @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +/* + initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the + filesystem used for early user space. + Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23 + released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin. + If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the + following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary: + + + ld -m elf_i386 --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \ + -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o + ld -m elf_i386 -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o + + initramfs_data.scr looks like this: +SECTIONS +{ + .init.ramfs : { *(.data) } +} + + The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures. + Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the + arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced. + + Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set + in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures. +*/ + +.section .init.ramfs,"a" +.incbin "usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz" |