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* "newc additions on runtime" feature?
@ 2016-01-29 15:18 Shea Levy
  2016-01-29 17:38 ` Andrei Borzenkov
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From: Shea Levy @ 2016-01-29 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: grub-devel

Hi all,

Commit 92750e4c ("Add ability to generate newc additions on runtime.") 
introduced special handling of initrd names starting with "newc:". I 
can't find any documentation for this feature nor any example of it 
actually in use; what are its semantics? Is there any chance this 
functionality can be removed?

I ask because I am writing a new loader for android bootimgs and have 
to bypass the normal 'initrd' command.

Thanks,
Shea


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* Re: "newc additions on runtime" feature?
  2016-01-29 15:18 "newc additions on runtime" feature? Shea Levy
@ 2016-01-29 17:38 ` Andrei Borzenkov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrei Borzenkov @ 2016-01-29 17:38 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: grub-devel

29.01.2016 18:18, Shea Levy пишет:
> Hi all,
> 
> Commit 92750e4c ("Add ability to generate newc additions on runtime.")
> introduced special handling of initrd names starting with "newc:". I
> can't find any documentation for this feature nor any example of it
> actually in use; what are its semantics? Is there any chance this
> functionality can be removed?
> 
> I ask because I am writing a new loader for android bootimgs and have to
> bypass the normal 'initrd' command.
> 

Just ignore it. It is used to build cpio archive from directory on the
fly, but you have single initrd with known size. Just allocate and
initialize initrd_ctx directly and pass it to common code.


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