From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>,
gkajmowi@tbaytel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initramfs
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:31:13 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821193113.A3448@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F44D504.7060909@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:48AM -0400
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Support replacing "initrd=" with "initramfs=", so that bootloaders can
> pass a cpio image into the standard initrd memory space.
This sounds like a very good idea, yes.
Or, maybe even make it such that initramfs acts like a file system,
that will just de-cpio the content of a block device to a ramfs.
Pro:
- requires less or no changes to existing initrd
- one can experiment with initramfs loaded from other sources than
an initrd
Contra:
- needs more infrastructure than plain initramfs
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-21 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-21 4:44 Initramfs Garrett Kajmowicz
2003-08-21 6:30 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 14:19 ` Initramfs Jeff Garzik
2003-08-21 18:28 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 19:03 ` Initramfs viro
2003-08-21 19:57 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 20:22 ` Initramfs Willy Tarreau
2003-08-21 20:56 ` Initramfs viro
2003-08-21 22:34 ` Initramfs H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-21 22:31 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-08-21 22:41 ` Initramfs Jeff Garzik
2003-08-21 23:15 ` Initramfs Werner Almesberger
2003-08-28 20:07 ` Initramfs H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-25 17:41 initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 18:26 ` initramfs Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-25 18:45 ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 19:54 ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 18:54 ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-07-13 10:06 initramfs Jacek Jabłoński
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