| Alain Knaff | a26ee60 | 2009-01-07 00:10:27 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* | 
|  | 2 | initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the | 
|  | 3 | filesystem used for early user space. | 
|  | 4 | Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23 | 
|  | 5 | released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin. | 
|  | 6 | If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the | 
|  | 7 | following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary: | 
|  | 8 |  | 
|  | 9 |  | 
|  | 10 | ld -m elf_i386  --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \ | 
|  | 11 | -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o | 
|  | 12 | ld -m elf_i386  -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o | 
|  | 13 |  | 
|  | 14 | initramfs_data.scr looks like this: | 
|  | 15 | SECTIONS | 
|  | 16 | { | 
|  | 17 | .init.ramfs : { *(.data) } | 
|  | 18 | } | 
|  | 19 |  | 
|  | 20 | The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures. | 
|  | 21 | Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the | 
|  | 22 | arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced. | 
|  | 23 |  | 
|  | 24 | Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set | 
|  | 25 | in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures. | 
|  | 26 | */ | 
|  | 27 |  | 
|  | 28 | .section .init.ramfs,"a" | 
|  | 29 | .incbin "usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2" |