Re: Initramfs

[Jeff Garzik]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> No.  initramfs is stuck in limbo at the moment, and early userspace is
> unlikely to see any real work until 2.7.  Feel free to ask questions,
> but don't expect them to result in anything actually happening.
>
> If you want to do real work in this area, the klibc mailing list is the
> place to go: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/klibc


Correct, though there is one thing I am thinking about adding to 2.6:

Support replacing "initrd=" with "initramfs=", so that bootloaders can 
pass a cpio image into the standard initrd memory space.

	Jeff



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