On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > configuration files. Instead of just uploading a copy of /dev/ram to the
> > server, he has to keep a copy of the kernel image around and use a home
> > brewed tool to find the start of the initrd in it and write the new one in
> > place, then upload both of them. You were saying that a better way to do
>
> No. He has to upload the image, and let a simple libbfd based tool on
> the machine he uploaded it to do the gluing. In fact if its a fixed
> size object then its very trivial to glue.
How does one deal with the case where the firmware can only
load kernels from flash, and doesn't necessarily have room
for a full initrd (especially one with a lot of debugging
stuff)?
Matthew.
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