signed F11 for XO-1

C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org
Thu Nov 5 16:01:03 EST 2009


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
> In the secure case, initramfs discovers the root device by looking in
> the /chosen node of the /ofw device tree.

I remember writing initramfs code with the proper algorithm to parse
the /ofw tree and discover the root device.  IIRC it was a little
non-trivial, because there are partitions and other hair to deal with,
and we might only deal with the common cases well.  But the skeleton
is there to read.
 --scott

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