Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Al Boldi wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sounds like somebody tried this before?
> 

Several people, yes.

>> 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.
> 
> So would it be possible to remap rootfs from ramfs to tmpfs, once tmpfs is 
> initialized, without actually doing another cpio?

That sounds nasty.

	-hpa