Hi,
Here's a patch to lsinitramfs to deal with initramfs images that start
with the microcode archive and then a real archive afterwards.
--
Brett Parker
diff -rU4 initramfs-tools/lsinitramfs initramfs-tools-0.109.1.new/lsinitramfs
--- initramfs-tools/lsinitramfs 2012-03-25 05:12:23.000000000 +0100
+++ initramfs-tools-0.109.1.new/lsinitramfs 2013-09-24 16:05:13.024780933 +0100
@@ -53,8 +53,25 @@
elif bzip2 -t "$initramfs" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
bzip2 -c -d "$initramfs" | cpio ${cpio_args}
elif lzop -t "$initramfs" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
lzop -c -d "$initramfs" | cpio ${cpio_args}
+ elif cpio ${cpio_args} < "$initramfs" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ # this is a straight cpio archive followed by a compressed one, yay!
+ cpio ${cpio_args} < "$initramfs"
+ real_offset=$(cpio --io-size=1 --extract --list < "$initramfs" 2>&1 >/dev/null | sed -e '$ { s# .*$##; p; }; d;')
+ # now we need to find the beginning of the actual archive, this is
+ # going to be the number of bytes from above + 8
+
+ # use same logic as above to loop through the potentials
+ if (dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | zcat -t >/dev/null 2>&1); then
+ dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | zcat | cpio ${cpio_args}
+ elif (dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | xzcat -t >/dev/null 2>&1); then
+ dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | xzcat | cpio ${cpio_args}
+ fi
+ elif (dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | bzip2 -t >/dev/null 2>&1); then
+ dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | bzip2 -c -d | cpio ${cpio_args}
+ elif (dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | lzop -t >/dev/null 2>&1); then
+ dd if="$initramfs" bs=$((real_offset+8)) skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | lzop -c -d | cpio ${cpio_args}
fi
fi
done
