From: crosser@average.org (Eugene Crosser)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: 7 Jul 2001 14:32:42 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9i6oga$jk1$1@pccross.average.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> I don't like the current initrd very much myself, I have to admit. I'm not
> going to accept a "you have to have a ramdisk" approach - I think the
> ramdisks are really broken.
>
> But I've seen a "populate ramfs from a tar-file built into 'bzImage'"
> patch somewhere, and that would be a whole lot more palatable to me.
Doesn't the approach "treat a chunk of data built into bzImage as
populated ramfs" look cleaner? No need to fiddle with tar format,
no copying data from place to place.
Eugene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 10:37 [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems Dave J Woolley
2001-07-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-05 8:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-05 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-05 13:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-05 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06 7:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-06 8:45 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-06 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-06 12:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-09 23:05 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-07 10:32 ` Eugene Crosser [this message]
2001-07-07 11:32 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-07 13:37 ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 13:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-07 21:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 21:44 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-08 7:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-08 16:46 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-09 14:40 ` Anthony DeBoer
2001-07-07 11:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 21:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 21:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:00 ` arjan
2001-07-07 22:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:04 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 22:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08 2:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-12 15:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-12 16:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-12 21:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2001-07-06 5:26 Andreas Dilger
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