lib: Add early cpio decoder

Add a simple cpio decoder without library dependencies for the purpose
of extracting components from the initramfs blob for early kernel
uses.  Intended consumers so far are microcode and ACPI override.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349043837-22659-2-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/earlycpio.h b/include/linux/earlycpio.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..111f46d83d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/earlycpio.h
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_EARLYCPIO_H
+#define _LINUX_EARLYCPIO_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#define MAX_CPIO_FILE_NAME 18
+
+struct cpio_data {
+	void *data;
+	size_t size;
+	char name[MAX_CPIO_FILE_NAME];
+};
+
+struct cpio_data find_cpio_data(const char *path, void *data, size_t len,
+				long *offset);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_EARLYCPIO_H */