Re: Does HaRET pass the initrd size?

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:16:32AM -0400, Tom Talpey wrote:
> At 04:33 PM 8/30/2008, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> >Haret sets it in the "tags" passed to the kernel. See:
> >
> >http://git.linuxtogo.org/?p=kevin/haret.git;a=blob;f=src/linboot.cpp;h
> >=d44ea116e2b67d8a6ee089e9050e9f238416a38e;hb=HEAD#l127
> >
> >That said, I'm not sure how large an initrd that Linux can practically
> >use.
>
> Aha - and it gets the "initrdSize" from the filesize? As in, don't compress
> the initrd? :-D ??

Yes - the size comes from the file size. The kernel can handle
compressed initrds, so you shouldn't need to uncompress it prior to
running haret.

-Kevin
Received on Sun Aug 31 2008 - 09:43:44 EDT