Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:08:33 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev |
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:33:48PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Here's the devtmpfs patch again. > > As an embedded distro maintainer, I'd really like such an approach. With > ptxdist, we can today build the complete rootfs for an embedded system > without root permissions - just if we want to nfs-root boot the boards > during development, it doesn't work, because you have to create > /dev/console, /dev/null and /dev/zero and that works only for root. > > On slow embedded systems (i.e. ARM 200 MHz), note that boot times are > often much slower than on full-blown x86. So any speed improvement is > welcome here as well.
That's good to hear, thanks for the response, I appreciate it.
greg k-h
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