From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Wolfgang Denk" Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , "Embedded Linux PPC list" Subject: Re: list of 2.6-related migration issues for embedded programmers? References: <20040719205835.AA851C109F@atlas.denx.de> From: "Linh Dang" Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:38:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040719205835.AA851C109F@atlas.denx.de> (Wolfgang Denk's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:58:30 -0400") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 19 Jul 2004, wd@denx.de wrote: > And as usual, there is two sides to initramfs. It may be convenient > for some cases, where you can use the very same root filesystem > image bundled with the kernel image, but exactly thsi convenience > may hurt you in other cases where it's much better when you have > separated images which can be updated independently of each other. Maybe I missed some thing but: - I'm using initramfs in my current project (2.6.7) - I failed to see what in initramfs mechanism would prevent one from having "separated images which can be updated independently of each other." Regards -- L.D. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/