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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