Re: Loading initrd over serial line

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Pavel Machek <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 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.
> 								Pavel

I think this belongs in the bootloader, not in the kernel.  After all,
the whole point of initrd is to unload these kinds of dependencies
from the kernel.

I don't know what r38xx means, but if this is an x86 platform, you may
want to contact me privately and we'll see if we can work out
something suitable.

	-hpa
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