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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>,
	gkajmowi@tbaytel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initramfs
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:31:13 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821193113.A3448@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F44D504.7060909@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:48AM -0400

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

This sounds like a very good idea, yes.

Or, maybe even make it such that initramfs acts like a file system,
that will just de-cpio the content of a block device to a ramfs.

Pro:
 - requires less or no changes to existing initrd
 - one can experiment with initramfs loaded from other sources than
   an initrd

Contra: 
 - needs more infrastructure than plain initramfs

- Werner

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-21 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-21  4:44 Initramfs Garrett Kajmowicz
2003-08-21  6:30 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 14:19   ` Initramfs Jeff Garzik
2003-08-21 18:28     ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 19:03       ` Initramfs viro
2003-08-21 19:57         ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 20:22           ` Initramfs Willy Tarreau
2003-08-21 20:56           ` Initramfs viro
2003-08-21 22:34             ` Initramfs H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-21 22:31     ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-08-21 22:41       ` Initramfs Jeff Garzik
2003-08-21 23:15         ` Initramfs Werner Almesberger
2003-08-28 20:07     ` Initramfs H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-25 17:41 initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 18:26 ` initramfs Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-25 18:45   ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 19:54     ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 18:54 ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-07-13 10:06 initramfs Jacek Jabłoński
2012-04-26 16:40 initramfs George Pontis
2012-04-30 11:40 ` initramfs Sascha Hauer
2015-10-26 10:17 initramfs Andrea Di Chiara
2015-10-31  0:42 ` initramfs Khem Raj

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