lspci in initramfs [SOLVED, kind-of]

marco1475 · Last edited by marco1475 on Sun May 03, 2009 4:21 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

My notebook has two graphics cards, Intel on-board and nVidia GeForce, and a hardware switch toggles between them. I would like to detect which of the cards is currently active in my initramfs. However, it seems that the lspci executable (part of the pciutils package) is not self-sufficient /static and simply copying it to the initramfs and calling it in the init script does not work. (I tried compiling the ebuild with LDFLAGS="-s -static", but that did not work because I "attempted static link of dynamic object `lib/libpci.so.3.0.2'".)

Does anyone have an idea how I can get lspci into the initramfs? All I need is to call:

marco1475 · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:21 am Post subject:

Alright, I solved it. The problem were, as usual the dependencies of lspci, because it needs to be self-sufficient in the initramfs. So you can either compile it statically (I haven't found a way) or you go the brute force method and copy all the libraries it depends on into your iniramfs. After a bit of Googling I came across the very useful "ldd" command, which lists all the dependencies of an executable. A simple call of