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diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README index cddbac456c2..93e63a9af30 100644 --- a/Documentation/early-userspace/README +++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/README @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ It consists of several major infrastructure components: - klibc, a userspace C library, currently packaged separately, that is optimized for correctness and small size. -The cpio file format used by initramfs is the "newc" (aka "cpio -c") +The cpio file format used by initramfs is the "newc" (aka "cpio -H newc") format, and is documented in the file "buffer-format.txt". There are two ways to add an early userspace image: specify an existing cpio archive to be used as the image or have the kernel build process build @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The image is specified as one or more sources in CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE. Sources can be either directories or files - cpio archives are *not* allowed when building from sources. -A source directory will have it and all of it's contents packaged. The +A source directory will have it and all of its contents packaged. The specified directory name will be mapped to '/'. When packaging a directory, limited user and group ID translation can be performed. INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID can be set to a user ID that needs to be mapped to @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ can really be interpreted as any legal argument to gen_initramfs_list.sh. If a directory is specified as an argument then the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output. If a directory is -specified as an arugemnt to scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the +specified as an argument to scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the contents of the file are simply copied to the output. All of the output directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are processed by usr/gen_init_cpio. @@ -83,14 +83,13 @@ Where's this all leading? The klibc distribution contains some of the necessary software to make early userspace useful. The klibc distribution is currently -maintained separately from the kernel, but this may change early in -the 2.7 era (it missed the boat for 2.5). +maintained separately from the kernel. You can obtain somewhat infrequent snapshots of klibc from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/ -For active users, you are better off using the klibc BitKeeper -repositories, at http://klibc.bkbits.net/ +For active users, you are better off using the klibc git +repository, at http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/klibc/klibc.git The standalone klibc distribution currently provides three components, in addition to the klibc library: @@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ c) using initramfs. The call to prepare_namespace() must be skipped. initrd format, an cpio archive. It must be called "/init". This binary is responsible to do all the things prepare_namespace() would do. - To remain backwards compatibility, the /init binary will only run if it + To maintain backwards compatibility, the /init binary will only run if it comes via an initramfs cpio archive. If this is not the case, init/main.c:init() will run prepare_namespace() to mount the final root and exec one of the predefined init binaries. |