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Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-09 04:35:14
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Em Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0000, Alan Cox escreveu:
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:15, Michael Mueller wrote:
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Hi Alan,
Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has
a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no
way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP
stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4
still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space
help.
Just glue the initrd to the kernel. This is not rocket science
arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c

   Simple utility to make a single-image install kernel with initial ramdisk
   for Sparc tftpbooting without need to set up nfs.

   Copyright (C) 1996 Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz)
   Pete Zaitcev [off-list ref] endian fixes for cross-compiles, 2000.

- Arnaldo
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