Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:55:39 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Initrd Dynamic v4.2 - New Feature: Tmpfs root support |
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > As for the code... _all_ you need on the kernel side is "unpack <some_archive> > to ramfs/tmpfs and do exec()". That's it. The rest can be done in userland. > That includes the logics with loading ramdisk from initrd/floppies, handling > nfsroot, choosing final root device, yodda, yodda. And yes, I consider > ripping that logics from the kernel space a Good Thing(tm).
...as do others...
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