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docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

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initrd/initramfs/ramdisk docs:
- fix typos/spellos/grammar
- clarify RAM disk config location
- correct cpio option

Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <[email protected]>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Randy Dunlap 2007-10-16 23:29:29 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -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.