[coreboot] kernel payload

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue May 9 00:54:48 CEST 2017


is that a compressed or uncompressed initramfs? linux payload can use
anything you configure it for.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:22 PM Healer64 <Healer64 at protonmail.com> wrote:

> I guess I will need to do more research about what the minimum
> requirements will be.
>
> Looking at /boot on my current system the initramfs is about 11Mb, so that
> would be way too large. Can a linux payload use initramfs or only initrd?
>
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> Subject: Re: [coreboot] kernel payload
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> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:11 PM Healer64 <Healer64 at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So the question still remains as to how big the initrd image will be
>> assuming it has to have the necessities to mount root on lvm encrypted
>> drive. Any idea?
>>
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>>
>
> What do you want in there? I'm puzzled that you keep asking this given how
> much it can vary. OK, here's, and idea: I've seen it range from 100K to 30M.
>
> ron
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