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author | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-06-01 12:42:12 +0200 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-06-01 12:42:12 +0200 |
commit | b4ca761577535b2b4d153689ee97342797dfff05 (patch) | |
tree | 29054d55508f1faa22ec32acf7c245751af03348 /usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S | |
parent | 28f4197e5d4707311febeec8a0eb97cb5fd93c97 (diff) | |
parent | 67a3e12b05e055c0415c556a315a3d3eb637e29e (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
fs/pipe.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S b/usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..59211905da84 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +/* + initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the + filesystem used for early user space. + Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23 + released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin. + If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the + following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary: + + + ld -m elf_i386 --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \ + -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o + ld -m elf_i386 -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o + + initramfs_data.scr looks like this: +SECTIONS +{ + .init.ramfs : { *(.data) } +} + + The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures. + Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the + arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced. + + Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set + in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures. +*/ + +.section .init.ramfs,"a" +.incbin "usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzo" |