[OLPC-devel] Re: suggested requirement for new kernels and initrds: must boot under qemu and/or kexec as kernel and initrd before release as a stream

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> initramfs is not working very well anyway. Aside from the bugs in the
> build system, when I'm done I get this:
> -rw-rw-r--  1 rminnich rminnich 466368 Jul  4 16:38 initramfs_data.cpio.gz
> 
> whereas the same identical rootfs, as an initrd, is:
> -rw-rw-r--  1 rminnich rminnich 232879 Jul  4 22:36
> ../../buildrom/deploy/initrd
> 
> pretty bad.

Known bug. Every file is included twice. A fix was posted to linux-kernel
a few days ago.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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