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