From 03d21da2681bf649fd71e070d35ea4dc6cda12aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trammell hudson <hudson@trmm.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:09:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] generate 512-byte padded xz files

---
 Makefile | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 05b2f96..8d1fb75 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -358,17 +358,21 @@ initrd.intermediate: initrd.cpio
 
 #
 # Compress the initrd into a xz file that can be included by coreboot.
-# The extra options are necessary to let the Linux kernel decompress it.
+# The extra options are necessary to let the Linux kernel decompress it
+# and the extra padding is to ensure that it can be concatenated to
+# other cpio files.
 #
 coreboot.intermediate: $(build)/$(coreboot_dir)/initrd.cpio.xz
 $(build)/$(coreboot_dir)/initrd.cpio.xz: initrd.cpio
+
+%.xz: %
 	$(call do,COMPRESS,$<,\
 	xz \
 		--check=crc32 \
 		--lzma2=dict=1MiB \
 		-9 \
 		< "$<" \
-		> "$@" \
+	| dd bs=512 conv=sync > "$@" \
 	)
 	@sha256sum "$@"