From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Rewrite of arch/mips/ramdisk/
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:05:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041115180507.GA23952@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4197B286.4060503@gentoo.org>
> It looks like this option, which afaict, doesn't seem to have an entry
> anywhere in Kconfig, specifies a list of files for inclusion in a cpio
> archive that's bundled into the kernel. My question then is, can a
> lookback-mountable filesystem image be included in this list, and the
> kernel, given /dev/ram0 as root, know to mount and use the loopback image?
You could include a loop-back mountable filesystem image. But that's
not even nessecary. The kernel will call /init of the files in the
initramfs, and you could just store everything you'd store in the
loopback filesystem directly in the initramfs image.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-14 6:43 [PATCH]: Rewrite of arch/mips/ramdisk/ Kumba
2004-11-14 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-14 17:25 ` Kumba
2004-11-14 19:31 ` Kumba
2004-11-15 17:55 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-11-16 1:21 ` Kumba
2004-11-15 18:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-11-17 13:17 ` Ralf Baechle
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