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From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 12:54:18AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Hi Bagas,
>=20
> On 07.12.23 13:37, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On my Arch Linux system, /sys/firmware/initrd is not same as initramfs =
image
> > from /boot partition that is uncompressed. `ls -l` listing shows
> > (with /tmp/initramfs-boot is unzstd'ed initramfs of the same kernel boo=
ted):
> >=20
> > ```
> > -r--r----- 1 root root 22967535 Dec  7 19:32 /sys/firmware/initrd
> > -rw------- 1 root root 40960000 Dec  7 19:26 /tmp/initramfs-boot
> > ```
> >=20
> > And thus, `cpio -i -v` listing differs. While in uncompressed initramfs,
> > I got expected initramfs contents (early userpace for booting), doing t=
he same
> > to /sys/firmware/initrd only shows Intel microcode.
> >=20
> > Regardless, exposing initramfs as advertised in the patch description w=
orks for
> > me.
>=20
>=20
> Thanks a bunch for testing the patch!
>=20
> The reason you're seeing microcode is that something in your boot chain
> (grub maybe? sd-boot?) sends multiple initrd blobs to Linux: One that
> contains microcode and another that contains the real initrd. Linux
> continues extracting past the first cpio archive.
>=20

Yes, I use grub on my setup.

Ciao!

--=20
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

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