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On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 03:50:25PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> I have no idea how it's faster than the current initramfs or initrd.
> So if it's really useful, maybe some numbers can be posted first
> with the current `memmap` hack and see it's worth going further with
> some new infrastructure like initdax.

Agreed.