Re: [PATCH]: Rewrite of arch/mips/ramdisk/

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> So why do you keep it instead of using initramfs as you should - which
> is the portable method useable on all ports.

Not sure I'm following what you're asking/referring to.  This is for an 
embedded filesystem initrd, like for a small busybox-based initrd, useful for 
netboot images and the like.  From looking at the initramfs stuff in usr/, 
that looks to be specific for linking config.gz into the kernel, and not 
configurable to link in a filesystem-based initrd.

I basically mimiced the method in usr/ for arch/mips/ramdisk/.  If there's 
some more global mechanism for utilizing this and tying in an initrd, then I 
didn't see it.  The current code in arch/mips/ramdisk/ is virtually the same 
as the stuff in arch/sh/ramdisk/, so it doesn't look like any kind of code 
sharing is going on between the various ports that have an optional embedded 
ramdisk.


--Kumba

-- 
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small 
hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." 
--Elrond