Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eugene Crosser) | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems | Date | 7 Jul 2001 17:37:52 +0400 |
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In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107070727030.24836-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
>> Doesn't the approach "treat a chunk of data built into bzImage as >> populated ramfs" look cleaner? No need to fiddle with tar format, >> no copying data from place to place. > > What the hell _is_ "populated ramfs"? The thing doesn't live in array > of blocks. Its directory structure consists of a bunch of dentries.
I am stupid. But the point still stays: having an image of pre-populated filesystem (some other than ramfs) that you only need to load into RAM seems more sutable than parsing tar format. Maybe (probably) I am missing something.
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