Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eugene Crosser) | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems | Date | 7 Jul 2001 14:32:42 +0400 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> I don't like the current initrd very much myself, I have to admit. I'm not > going to accept a "you have to have a ramdisk" approach - I think the > ramdisks are really broken. > > But I've seen a "populate ramfs from a tar-file built into 'bzImage'" > patch somewhere, and that would be a whole lot more palatable to me.
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.
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