From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:52:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C90B6F.5070000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607272026.57695.a1426z@gawab.com>
Al Boldi wrote:
>
> Thanks for your very useful docPatch!
>
> 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?
>
Useful, yes, but this has turned out to be fairly complex. tmpfs needs
a *LOT* more of the system to be fully operational than ramfs, and the
rootfs is initialized very early on, since one of its purposes is to
eliminate special cases.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-27 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-27 17:26 patch for Documentation/initrd.txt? Al Boldi
2006-07-27 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-27 20:35 ` Al Boldi
2006-07-27 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-28 13:58 ` Al Boldi
2006-07-27 20:19 ` Rik van Riel
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2006-07-27 13:17 Tom Horsley
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