[syslinux] [PATCH] 4 Patches for initrd+= and initrdfile= Options

[Ferenc Wagner]

Shao Miller <sha0.miller at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/26/2012 04:37, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> "Shao Miller" <sha0.miller at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 1. The "initrdfile=" option allows you to specify the target path
>>> for the file that will be encapsulated, using the '@'
>>> symbol. Please see commit messages, way down below. 
>>
>> Hi Shao, This is way cool! How do you feel about adding support for
>> recursing into directories? 
>
> Are you asking about loading an entire directory from the Syslinux
> boot media and passing that directory and its files into Linux' rootfs
> via the initramfs scheme?  If so, while it could be coded, it wouldn't
> work for filesystems that cannot list directory contents, such as
> PXELINUX' TFTP "filesystem."  Is that what you meant?

Yes, that's what I meant, and I now understand that it wouldn't work
over TFTP.  On the other hand, Gert's idea of reading the file list from
another file is only marginally better than the already available cpio
concatenation, as the file list should be generated anyway...  So I'm
not so sure either is worth the effort, considering the resulting
feature disparity.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.