Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:55:27 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I haven't been following the initramfs stuff, but now I have a question. > Currently we're using initrd to store a kernel and compressed ramdisk bundled > together as an ~7MB single file that gets netbooted by firmware in a card. Will > it be possible to bundle initramfs together with the kernel into a single file > in this same manner?
<shrug> kernel unpacks to rootfs after init_vfs_caches(). It does populate_root(archive_start, archive_size); followed by releasing that area. That's it. If you have these variables set - it will work, no matter how did the archive get there.
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