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+/*
+  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
+
+  For including the .init.ramfs sections, see include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.
+
+  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.
+*/
+
+#include <linux/stringify.h>
+#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
+
+.section .init.ramfs,"a"
+__irf_start:
+.incbin __stringify(INITRAMFS_IMAGE)
+__irf_end:
+.section .init.ramfs.info,"a"
+.globl VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_size)
+VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_size):
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+	.quad __irf_end - __irf_start
+#else
+	.long __irf_end - __irf_start
+#endif