bootconfig: Support embedding a bootconfig file in kernel
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 Apr 2022 02:31:19 +0000 (11:31 +0900)
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:58:51 +0000 (17:58 -0400)
commita2a9d67a26ec94a99ed29efbd61cf5be0a575678
treeb074eb9d609459cf78af18be15dfb7aaa1bd0d90
parent765b8552a200471414e9e92de3e35ceb9e735e61
bootconfig: Support embedding a bootconfig file in kernel

This allows kernel developer to embed a default bootconfig file in
the kernel instead of embedding it in the initrd. This will be good
for who are using the kernel without initrd, or who needs a default
bootconfigs.
This needs to set two kconfigs: CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y and set
the file path to CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE.

Note that you still need 'bootconfig' command line option to load the
embedded bootconfig. Also if you boot using an initrd with a different
bootconfig, the kernel will use the bootconfig in the initrd, instead
of the default bootconfig.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164921227943.1090670.14035119557571329218.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Padmanabha Srinivasaiah <treasure4paddy@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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include/linux/bootconfig.h
init/Kconfig
init/main.c
lib/.gitignore
lib/Makefile
lib/bootconfig-data.S [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/bootconfig.c