Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262575AbTHUWfi (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:35:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262657AbTHUWfi (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:35:38 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:43524 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262575AbTHUWfc (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:35:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3F45490B.5000505@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:34:51 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk CC: "Bryan O'Sullivan" , Jeff Garzik , gkajmowi@tbaytel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Initramfs References: <200308210044.17876.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net> <1061447419.19503.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> <3F44D504.7060909@pobox.com> <1061490490.23060.9.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> <20030821190358.GF454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1061495854.23060.12.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> <20030821205656.GG454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030821205656.GG454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 25 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:57:34PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >>On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:03, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk >>wrote: >> >>>RTFM. cpio -o -H newc should be used to create an archive; _not_ the >>>"binary" format that is default. >> >>There is no FM to R in this regard. > > Ouch. My apologies - I'd assumed that it got into the tree and hadn't > checked that. Google for "initramfs buffer spec" will give the text > I had in mind. Probably ought to go in Documentation/*, unless hpa > has any problems with it. Peter? I concur wholeheartedly. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/