list of 2.6-related migration issues for embedded programmers?

[Mark Chambers]

> >> - 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.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> L.D.
>

So you can have a separate uboot image (from mkimage) that you can update
separately and it will get passed to the kernel on boot?


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