From 1810732e94576ae0d04e953ecaba8c7151c9a287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:29:29 -0700 Subject: docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs: - fix typos/spellos/grammar - clarify RAM disk config location - correct cpio option Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan Acked-by: Rob Landley Cc: Werner Almesberger Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/early-userspace/README | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/early-userspace') diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README index cddbac456c2..766d320c8eb 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 @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2