list of 2.6-related migration issues for embedded programmers?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Linh Dang wrote:

>
> On 20 Jul 2004, wd at denx.de wrote:
>
>> In message <wn5zn5v8nl8.fsf at linhd-2.ca.nortel.com> you wrote:
>>>
>>> - I failed to see what in initramfs mechanism would prevent
>>> one from having "separated images which can be updated
>>> independently of each other."
>>
>> initramfs gets linked with the kernel into one image, similar to
>
> But you don't have to. What ever you can do with the good-old initrd
> image you can do with the new initramfs (really cpio archive)
> image. The main difference is the creation: genext2fs vs cpio.
>
> I just happen to use zImage.initrd (where ramdisk.image.gz is a cpio
> archive) in our project because it's the most appropriate for our
> situation.

i have to agree with wolfgang here -- how would you create and use an
initramfs image separately from the kernel image?  the only
possibility i can see based on my perusal is to incorporate the
initramfs into the zImage.initrd.

rday

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