Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 30 Oct 2002 18:19:07 +0900 |
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes: > >[Well, OK, actually it'd be nice to have something like initramfs + some > >other sort of fetch-the-bits-directly-from-ROM FS which I could > >mix-n-match; anyway initramfs has got to be better than initrd...] > > It should be pretty easy to populate initramfs from ROM...
Actually what I was trying to say was that often I don't want to copy from ROM to RAM, I just want to have file reads get the bits directly from ROM (to avoid using, um, RAM).
Currently I do this by using a romfs filesystem stored in an MD device which is reading from ROM.
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