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That code is correct. an initramfs can be any number of |
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uncompressed or compressed cpio files concatenated together. |
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The kernel is handling figuring out |
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whats compressed or not etc. So it works because of the code in the |
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kernel. so no you dont need to do that extra work. |
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On 15:14 Thu 07 Jul , Paul Smith wrote: |
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> %% Eric Edgar <rocket@g.o> writes: |
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> ee> You technically cannot extract the cpio archive as far as I can tell |
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> ee> because it really is multiple cpio archives concatenated together. |
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> Ah! OK. |
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> ee> cd ${INITRAMFS_OVERLAY} |
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> ee> find . -print | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ${CACHE_DIR}/cpio/initramfs-overlay.cpio.gz |
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> ee> cat old-oldinitramfs.cpio.gz initramfs-overlay.cpio.gz > new-initramfs.cpio.gz |
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> Wait, that's not right is it? |
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> Is the initramfs really a concatenation of compressed cpio files? I |
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> don't think it is... gzip can't handle that. |
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> It must be a compression of a concatenation of cpio files, right? In |
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> that case the above command line is not correct... I'd need to create |
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> the cpio file, concatenate it to an uncompressed copy of the existing |
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> initramfs, then compress the whole thing again. |
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> Yes? |
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