From 5672a0e4e892c04ec599733498c8dc2ca6fe6db2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:04:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 32975 b: refs/heads/master c:
 0a5eca6530eb4d0120981936058537c24a2f92ce h: refs/heads/master i:   32973:
 a454384b843c0cc913eeb0fed654941526c9eb9b   32971:
 f73494247c361b5fe2ad05d47c69a39d124a735a   32967:
 1a26d1a38e0eb03596493d15e3d2bc0b7cbf8c94   32959:
 659ed8ea9483830ee1dc3f94ab49860133c32b1d v: v3

---
 [refs]                         |  2 +-
 trunk/Documentation/initrd.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 4a3633c4ccd8..b81a9b678461 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 5a06a363ef48444186f18095ae1b932dddbbfa89
+refs/heads/master: 0a5eca6530eb4d0120981936058537c24a2f92ce
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/initrd.txt b/trunk/Documentation/initrd.txt
index b1b6440237a6..15f1b35deb34 100644
--- a/trunk/Documentation/initrd.txt
+++ b/trunk/Documentation/initrd.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,22 @@ initrd adds the following new options:
     initrd is mounted as root, and the normal boot procedure is followed,
     with the RAM disk still mounted as root.
 
+Compressed cpio images
+----------------------
+
+Recent kernels have support for populating a ramdisk from a compressed cpio
+archive, on such systems, the creation of a ramdisk image doesn't need to
+involve special block devices or loopbacks, you merely create a directory on
+disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an
+example):
+
+find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img
+
+Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple:
+
+mkdir /tmp/imagefile
+cd /tmp/imagefile
+gzip -cd /boot/imagefile.img | cpio -imd --quiet
 
 Installation
 ------------