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initramfs: add support for in-kernel initramfs compressed with LZO
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Add the necessary parts to be enable the use of LZO-compressed initramfs
build into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Albin Tonnerre authored and torvalds committed May 27, 2010
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
Expand Up @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ case "$arg" in
echo "$output_file" | grep -q "\.gz$" && compr="gzip -9 -f"
echo "$output_file" | grep -q "\.bz2$" && compr="bzip2 -9 -f"
echo "$output_file" | grep -q "\.lzma$" && compr="lzma -9 -f"
echo "$output_file" | grep -q "\.lzo$" && compr="lzop -9 -f"
echo "$output_file" | grep -q "\.cpio$" && compr="cat"
shift
;;
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion usr/Makefile
Expand Up @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ suffix_$(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_BZIP2) = .bz2
# Lzma
suffix_$(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA) = .lzma

# Lzo
suffix_$(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZO) = .lzo

# Generate builtin.o based on initramfs_data.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) := initramfs_data$(suffix_y).o

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quiet_cmd_initfs = GEN $@
cmd_initfs = $(initramfs) -o $@ $(ramfs-args) $(ramfs-input)

targets := initramfs_data.cpio.gz initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 initramfs_data.cpio.lzma initramfs_data.cpio
targets := initramfs_data.cpio.gz initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 initramfs_data.cpio.lzma initramfs_data.cpio.lzo initramfs_data.cpio
# do not try to update files included in initramfs
$(deps_initramfs): ;

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29 changes: 29 additions & 0 deletions usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S
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/*
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"

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