[coreboot] kernel payload

Trammell Hudson hudson at trmm.net
Tue May 9 21:40:03 CEST 2017


On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:11:52PM -0400, Healer64 via coreboot 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?

The Heads Linux runtime can mount lvm encrypted drives (along with lots
of other features) and needs 7 MB for coreboot, the kernel and initrd.
If you drop suport for gpg+yubikey, network drivers and a few other
things it can fit into 4 MB.

https://github.com/osresearch/heads

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Trammell



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