Re: Loading initrd over serial line

[David Woodhouse]

[e-mail] said:
>  This patch should load initrd over serial line. On r38xx it works for
> me, but kernel crashes after that and I do not know who to blame. It
> needs some ifdefs and it needs making some functions public...

> You'll need program that looks for 'X' and sends block of data to use
> this.

Cute, if somewhat sick.

It'd be far nicer to use ramfs, though. What I'd like to do is compile a
statically-linked combination of tar(1) and rz(1), which will untar the
tarball it receives into a fresh ramfs.

Q: If you don't have initrd, where do you put this binary? 

A: In the kernel. Provide it with a set of pages which are to be put into 
the user-space side of process #1, rather then exec'ing /sbin/init.

Also cute, and definitely sicker :)

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