Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:42:09 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file |
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Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 14:10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >>Note that Al is working on a replacement; he's not just bitching. The >>replacement is called "initramfs" which means populating a ramfs from >>an archive or collection of archives passwd by the bootloader. With >>that in there, lots of things can be done in userspace. >> > > Already done for many months (actully years) now. If I thought it > would be accepted, I'd gut rd.c and fully merge it into a 2.5 patch. >
Viro's going quite a bit beyond this, though. Also, a big key is the ability to have multiple images, some of which may not be compressed.
-hpa
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