list of 2.6-related migration issues for embedded programmers?

[Linh Dang]

On 19 Jul 2004, rpjday at mindspring.com wrote:
[...]
>
> and all i need to change is "ramdisk.image.gz" to, say, my "newc"
> format gzipped cpio archive, "initramfs.cpio.gz", and the early
> kernel code should recognize it as such automatically?
>
> i'll give that a shot later.
>
> rday

look at populate_rootfs(), it's that simple. Our local kernel tree has
the following in the boot/simple/Makefile:

ZRDIMAGE := $(images)/ramdisk.image.gz
ROOTDIR := $(srctree)/............/path/to/dir/containing/root-fs

$(ZRDIMAGE) :  $(OUR_LOCAL_RULES_FOR_BUSYBOX) FORCE
        (cd $(ROOTDIR) &&  find | grep -v '~$$' | cpio -o -Hnewc ) | \
        gzip -9 -c > $@

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