Booting OS on PowerPC

[Milton Miller]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:09 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:

>  On Mon, Dec 12, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, do people find external initrd's useful at
>> all still, or is everyone using built-in initramfs?  If so, we
>> could just deprecate initrd caompletely.
>
> You mean the initrd should be put into a .init.ramfs section?
> Can objcopy safely add and remove such a section at any time?
>

Any time before link, sure.

But to actually boot a kernel, you would need to rerun the link, as all 
the references to loacations past the beginning of the initramfs would 
be broken, and need a pass of ld to fix [1].

So the bottom line answer;

NO.

milton

[1] unless of course the new section is exactly the same size as the 
one being replaced.