Trying to address piix issue:

 - added -m to print a message before passing control to kinit
 - added earlymodules= to preload modules

git-svn-id: http://projects.archlinux.org/svn/initramfs/mkinitcpio@187 880c04e9-e011-0410-abf7-b926e227c9cd

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/init b/init
index 20d902e..e9d1866 100644
--- a/init
+++ b/init
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ if [ "x${disablemodules}" != "x" ]; then
     done
 fi
 
+if [ "x${earlymodules}" != "x" ]; then
+    for m in $(replace "${earlymodules}" ','); do
+        /bin/modprobe -q $m > /dev/null 2>&1
+    done
+fi
+
 . /config
 
 for m in $MODULES; do
@@ -94,6 +100,9 @@ if [ "x${udevpid}" != "x" ]; then
 fi
 
 msg ":: Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit"
+if [ -f "/message" ]; then
+    msg "$(cat /message)"
+fi
 
 echo "/sbin/modprobe" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
 exec /bin/kinit -- "root=${root}" ${kinit_params} "${runlevel}" > /dev/null 2>&1
diff --git a/install/base b/install/base
index 0bb45db..78fbc1d 100644
--- a/install/base
+++ b/install/base
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ install ()
 
     add_file "/lib/initcpio/init" "/init"
     add_file "${CONFIG}" "/config"
+    if [ "x${MESSAGE}" != "x" ]; then
+        echo -e "${MESSAGE}" > ${MESSAGEFILE}
+        add_file "${MESSAGEFILE}" "/message"
+    fi
     SCRIPT=""
 }
 
diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
index 70f848c..ace6b77 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio
+++ b/mkinitcpio
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 # Settings
 BASEDIR=""
 FILELIST="$(mktemp /tmp/.tmpfilelist.XXXX)"
+MESSAGEFILE="$(mktemp /tmp/.message.XXXX)"
 KERNELVERSION="$(uname -r)"
 FUNCTIONS="functions"
 CONFIG="mkinitcpio.conf"
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ SAVELIST=""
 GENIMG=""
 APPEND=""
 PRESET=""
+MESSAGE=""
 PRESETDIR="mkinitcpio.d"
 QUIET="y"
 SHOW_AUTOMODS="n"
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ usage ()
     echo "  -g IMAGE         Generate a cpio image as IMAGE. default: no"
     echo "  -a NAME          Append to an existing filelist. default: no"
     echo "  -p PRESET        Build specified preset."
+    echo "  -m MESSAGE       Print MESSAGE before passing control to kinit."
     echo "  -v               Verbose output. Default: no"
     echo "  -M               Display modules found via autodetection." 
     echo "  -L               List all available hooks." 
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ usage ()
     exit 1
 }
 
-while getopts ':c:k:s:b:g:a:p:vH:LMh' arg; do
+while getopts ':c:k:s:b:g:a:p:m:vH:LMh' arg; do
     if [ "${OPTARG:0:1}" = "-" ]; then
         echo "error: optional argument to '-$arg' begins with a '-'"
         echo "  you probably don't want this....aborting."
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@ while getopts ':c:k:s:b:g:a:p:vH:LMh' arg; do
         g) GENIMG="$OPTARG" ;;
         a) APPEND="y"; SAVELIST="y"; FILELIST="$OPTARG" ;;
         p) PRESET="$OPTARG" ;;
+        m) MESSAGE="$OPTARG" ;;
         v) QUIET="n" ;;
         H) source "${INSTDIR}/${OPTARG}";
            echo "Help for hook '${OPTARG}':"
@@ -85,9 +89,10 @@ shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
 # use preset $PRESET
 if [ -n "${PRESET}" ]; then
     if [ -f "${PRESETDIR}/${PRESET}.preset" ]; then
-        # Use -b and -v options specified earlier
+        # Use -b, -m and -v options specified earlier
         PRESET_MKOPTS="${0}"
         [ -n "${BASEDIR}" ] && PRESET_MKOPTS="${PRESET_MKOPTS} -b ${BASEDIR}"
+        [ -n "${MESSAGE}" ] && PRESET_MKOPTS="${PRESET_MKOPTS} -m ${MESSAGE}"
         [ "${QUIET}" = "n" ] && PRESET_MKOPTS="${PRESET_MKOPTS} -v"
         # Build all images
         source ${PRESETDIR}/${PRESET}.preset
@@ -238,6 +243,7 @@ if [ "x$GENIMG" != "x" ]; then
     if [ "x${SAVELIST}" == "x" ]; then
         rm ${FILELIST}
     fi
+    rm ${MESSAGEFILE}
 else
     echo ":: Dry run complete, use -g IMAGE to generate a real image"
 fi