|  | /* | 
|  | initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the | 
|  | filesystem used for early user space. | 
|  | Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23 | 
|  | released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin. | 
|  | If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the | 
|  | following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary: | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | ld -m elf_i386  --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \ | 
|  | -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o | 
|  | ld -m elf_i386  -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o | 
|  |  | 
|  | initramfs_data.scr looks like this: | 
|  | SECTIONS | 
|  | { | 
|  | .init.ramfs : { *(.data) } | 
|  | } | 
|  |  | 
|  | The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures. | 
|  | Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the | 
|  | arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set | 
|  | in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures. | 
|  | */ | 
|  |  | 
|  | .section .init.ramfs,"a" | 
|  | .incbin "usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2" |