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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2007-10-17 08:29:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 17:42:56 +0200 |
| commit | 1810732e94576ae0d04e953ecaba8c7151c9a287 (patch) | |
| tree | c2ff43ec67ea41d2e5fee33b5e9a0d828871d3b5 /Documentation/early-userspace | |
| parent | local_t: update documentation (diff) | |
| download | linux-1810732e94576ae0d04e953ecaba8c7151c9a287.tar.xz linux-1810732e94576ae0d04e953ecaba8c7151c9a287.zip | |
docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections
initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs:
- fix typos/spellos/grammar
- clarify RAM disk config location
- correct cpio option
Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/early-userspace')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/early-userspace/README | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README index cddbac456c29..766d320c8eb6 100644 --- a/Documentation/early-userspace/README +++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/README @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ It consists of several major infrastructure components: - klibc, a userspace C library, currently packaged separately, that is optimized for correctness and small size. -The cpio file format used by initramfs is the "newc" (aka "cpio -c") +The cpio file format used by initramfs is the "newc" (aka "cpio -H newc") format, and is documented in the file "buffer-format.txt". There are two ways to add an early userspace image: specify an existing cpio archive to be used as the image or have the kernel build process build @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The image is specified as one or more sources in CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE. Sources can be either directories or files - cpio archives are *not* allowed when building from sources. -A source directory will have it and all of it's contents packaged. The +A source directory will have it and all of its contents packaged. The specified directory name will be mapped to '/'. When packaging a directory, limited user and group ID translation can be performed. INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID can be set to a user ID that needs to be mapped to @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ c) using initramfs. The call to prepare_namespace() must be skipped. initrd format, an cpio archive. It must be called "/init". This binary is responsible to do all the things prepare_namespace() would do. - To remain backwards compatibility, the /init binary will only run if it + To maintain backwards compatibility, the /init binary will only run if it comes via an initramfs cpio archive. If this is not the case, init/main.c:init() will run prepare_namespace() to mount the final root and exec one of the predefined init binaries. |