[Skiboot] [PATCH] mambo: Allow loading multiple CPIOs

[Stewart Smith]

Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:

> Currently we have support for loading a single CPIO and telling Linux to
> use it as the initrd. But the Linux code actually supports having
> multiple CPIOs contiguously in memory, between initrd-start and end, and
> will unpack them all in order. That is a really nice feature as it means
> you can have a base CPIO with your root filesystem, and then tack on
> others as you need for various tests etc.
>
> So expand the logic to handle SKIBOOT_INITRD, and treat it as a comma
> separated list of CPIOs to load. I chose comma as it's fairly rare in
> filenames, but we could make it space, colon, whatever. Or we could add
> a new environment variable entirely. The code also supports trimming
> whitespace from the values, so you can have "cpio1, cpio2".
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>

I'm okay with a comma, so merged to master as of 1c705700ab3c370e8062516c842469f3f7857f2a

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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.