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How to inject a separate gzipped initramfs cpio file into vmlinux as section .init.ramfs.
How to inject a gzipped initramfs cpio file into vmlinux as section .init.ramfs:


First turn the initramfs into an ELF, excluding everything but the file data:
1. Turn the initramfs into an ELF binary, excluding everything but the file data:
 
objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 --redefine-sym _binary_initramfs_start=.init.ramfs -N _binary_initramfs_end -N _binary_initramfs_size initramfs initramfs.elf
    objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 --redefine-sym _binary_initramfs_start=.init.ramfs -N _binary_initramfs_end -N _binary_initramfs_size initramfs initramfs.elf
Note that the symbol names _binary_initramfs_{start,end,size} above depend on the input filename. objcopy does some translation so e.g. a period (.) in the filename becomes an underscore (_) in the symbol names.
 
Note that the symbol names _binary_initramfs_{start,end,size} above depend on the input filename. objcopy does some translation here, e.g. a period (.) in the filename will become an underscore (_) in the symbols.
 
Now remove any existing .init.ramfs section in vmlinux and add the one in initramfs.elf:


2. Remove any previous .init.ramfs section in vmlinux and add the new one from initramfs.elf:
     objcopy -I elf32-i386 -O elf32-i386 -R .init.ramfs --add-section .init.ramfs=initramfs.elf vmlinux vmlinux.withnewinitramfs
     objcopy -I elf32-i386 -O elf32-i386 -R .init.ramfs --add-section .init.ramfs=initramfs.elf vmlinux vmlinux.withnewinitramfs


All done.
3. Done! Please test using vmlinux.withnewinitramfs as payload with coreboot and let us know the result!

Revision as of 19:25, 9 October 2008

How to inject a gzipped initramfs cpio file into vmlinux as section .init.ramfs:

1. Turn the initramfs into an ELF binary, excluding everything but the file data: 

objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 --redefine-sym _binary_initramfs_start=.init.ramfs -N _binary_initramfs_end -N _binary_initramfs_size initramfs initramfs.elf

Note that the symbol names _binary_initramfs_{start,end,size} above depend on the input filename. objcopy does some translation so e.g. a period (.) in the filename becomes an underscore (_) in the symbol names.

2. Remove any previous .init.ramfs section in vmlinux and add the new one from initramfs.elf: 

   objcopy -I elf32-i386 -O elf32-i386 -R .init.ramfs --add-section .init.ramfs=initramfs.elf vmlinux vmlinux.withnewinitramfs

3. Done! Please test using vmlinux.withnewinitramfs as payload with coreboot and let us know the result!

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