mkinitrd (2 questions)

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Ricardo Carrano <carrano at laptop.org> wrote:
> Michael,
> Is this what you mean (taken from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel_Building)?
> # mkdir /tmp/X ; cd /tmp/X
> # zcat /versions/boot/current/boot/olpcrd.img | cpio -i
> # rm -r lib/modules
> # cp -r /lib/modules lib/
> # find . -print | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 >
> /versions/boot/current/boot/olpcrd.img
> Can we make this part of the rpm build process (as described in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rebuilding_OLPC_kernel).
> I mean, could we build a kernel rpm that included a new olpcrd.img?

See also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel.

I believe that the specific 'modules.dep' message you mention is
described there.

Yes, we could package the olpcrd w/ the kernel, but (a) they have
different maintainers, and (b) there are some binary-inclusion issues
to sort out.
 --scott

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