Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

[Rik van Riel]

Al Boldi wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:

> > +Compressed cpio images

> OT, but your docPatch made me think of another way to init the kernel; via 
> tmpfs, i.e. initTmpFS.
>
> Can anybody see how that could be useful?

That is exactly what Tom describes, except it is called initramfs
and goes into ramfs - which is mostly the same as tmpfs.

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