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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Barlow
4cfaed7303 specify root device as /dev/mtdblockn
the (openwrt?) magic that autodetects it based on mtd labels
won't work with a two-stage boot
2023-04-26 22:16:15 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
5dd0c6e3c0 rewrite preinit as very small C program
By using the kernel "nolibc" header to avoid requiring a C library, we
can bring the initramfs size to around 4k

This does involve a tiny bit of inline mips assembly which I'm not
sure about. gcc seems unwilling to generate the code to load $gp at
function entry of main(), so we do it by hand - but I'd rather find
out why gcc doesn't.
2023-04-15 18:27:39 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
9f3c80e774 make initramfs busybox (very slightly) smaller 2023-04-11 23:08:02 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
2566dc564c remove need for symlinks in initramfs busybox 2023-04-10 22:57:50 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
0ad7b0e48b don't hardcode mtd0 initramfs->second stage 2023-04-10 22:57:50 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
4638092d3d build initramfs into kernel
this doesn't matter for qemu, but there's no other way of
getting a hardware device to find it if the bootloader
won't co-operate
2023-04-10 22:57:50 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
63a89f7d0d add config.boot.initramfs.enable 2023-04-10 19:07:27 +01:00
Daniel Barlow
54a1ab3529 support jffs2, with initramfs
the jffs2 filesystem contains only /nix/store and a script which is
run in early init (initramfs) and is responsible for recreating
"traditional" directories (/bin /etc/**/* /var &c) based on the
configuration.

this is tested only in qemu so far and could use some cleanup
2023-04-04 23:35:49 +01:00