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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:34:44 +0100
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On January 13, 2002 09:39 pm, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> > 
> > > This is an update to the initramfs buffer format spec I posted
> > > earlier.  The changes are as follows:
> > 
> > Comments.  Endian issues are not specified, is the data little, big
> > or vax endian?
> 
> Data is what you put into files, byte-by-byte.  Headers are ASCII.

Is there a problem with the available tools, are they not capable of 
generating the binary version of the headers?

--
Daniel
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