Messages in this thread | | | From | Dave Cinege <> | Subject | Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 04:55:20 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 30 October 2002 4:00, Miles Bader wrote: > Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes: > > IMHO the embedded world (as well as everyone else) wants initramfs -- > > it is a major improvement.
Erik
#1 I'll be reviewing initramfs and adding loading image from the kernel support. I don't deny it's a godo thig to have.
#2 My main bitch at jeff was he said if initramfs goes in initrd comes out. initrd shodul not come out.
My patch is the best of both because
> I guess I'm part of the `embedded world,' and I don't want _either_ > because they _both use RAM_!
My patch supports this (well it can be in about 5 lines of code)
Right now for backwards compatiblity I have a initrd_from_floppy option (which replaces load_ramdisk=). I was debating changing that to initrd_from= and then you can spec /dev/fd0, /dev/fd1, or in your case a memory device linux understandings.
But I mostly dimissed it because that is the job of the boot loader....but you bring up a good point where it could be used.
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