Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: implement initial ramdisk support for ARM.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 16:00 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH v2] tools: implement initial ramdisk support for 
> ARM."):
> > The ramdisk is passed to the kernel as a property in the chosen node
> > of the device tree. This is somewhat tricky since in order to place
> > the ramdisk and dtb in ram we first need to know the size of the
> > dtb. So we initially create a DTB with placeholders for the ramdisk
> > and finalise the value (which doesn't change the size) once we know
> > where everything is.
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'll leave you to push it (perhaps after giving time for others to
> comment on v2).
> 
> > I'm considering proposing this for backport to 4.4 since lack of
> > initrd support is at the very least rather inconvenient for many use
> > cases.
> 
> I think this is a viable backport candidate.  Can you let me know when
> it's in-tree and I'll add it to my list

It's in now, commit 314c9815e2f5dc8a9fec11e0cf9b49b16ed0e96b

Ian.


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