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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: dcinege@psychosis.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initrd Dynamic -- Initramfs's GrandDaddy...(and competition)
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:19:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC26333.4040006@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200211010605.12473.dcinege@psychosis.com

Dave Cinege wrote:

>What this has that initramfs doesn't:
>	Clean up and rewrite of the system already in place.
>	The use of tar archives
>	Multiple archive support
>	Works good, right now
>  
>

indeed :)


>What initramfs has that this doesn't:
>	Load image from a 'linked' kernel location.
>	Uses CPIO archives
>  
>

early userspace, which is the whole point of the exercise.

We want to move a bunch of stuff _out_ of the kernel to userspace.

    Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-01 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-01 11:05 [PATCH] Initrd Dynamic -- Initramfs's GrandDaddy...(and competition) Dave Cinege
2002-11-01 11:19 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-01 20:13   ` Dave Cinege

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