From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs work
Date: 5 Oct 2002 00:51:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anm5lr$m58$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200210050512.g955CSx86532@sullivan.realtime.net
Followup to: <200210050512.g955CSx86532@sullivan.realtime.net>
By author: "Milton D. Miller II" <miltonm@realtime.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Al,
> Is there somewhere one could see what you are planning to merge?
>
> I was following the klibc dicussion list, but the archiver went slient after
> August.
>
> I like the idea in general, but I wasn't sure where this was going. It
> looked like the discussion there was going for replacing the do_mounts with
> the kernel uncpio/uncompress followed by a bunch of small utilities and
> scripts. I had some other ideas that I played with, but depend on starting
> with a single binary to make a lot of sense (going for the multi-call binary
> base approach). (This would leave the initrd file for the user space).
>
> If there is some place to get a preview I would appreciate it.
>
The next step is to get it all merged into the kernel tree.
-hpa
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2002-10-05 5:12 initramfs work Milton D. Miller II
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