Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

[Dennis Luehring]

Am 04.11.2016 um 22:08 schrieb Richard Henderson:
> No, it was less specific than that.  Something like "unpacking failed: error".
>
> > >And, apparently, it used to be handled with a panic() call, but then that
> > >was deemed "policy", and downgraded to a KERN_EMERG message:
> Ouch.  A silly decision, but definitely an uphill fight to get it changed.


using a big(~370MB) initrd.cpio with not enough ram (1GB) in qemu i get 
this kernel message

"Initramfs unpacking failed: write error"

using a small(~14MB) initrd.cpio with just a staticaly linked c based
init for the kernel also with 1GB ram (more then enough) gives me this 
kernel message:

"Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive"

and i currently can't say if only the first is evil or both

both cpios created with "find . | cpio -H newc -o initrd.cpio"