From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261903AbTJRWv3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:51:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261923AbTJRWv3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:51:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.sys.beep.pl ([195.245.198.13]:11783 "EHLO maja.beep.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261903AbTJRWv2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:51:28 -0400 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Organization: SelfOrganizing To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] initrd with devfs enabled (Re: initrd and 2.6.0-test8) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 00:46:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel References: <3F916A0C.10800@comcast.net> <200310182356.04346.arekm@pld-linux.org> <20031018221143.GI7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031018221143.GI7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310190046.04897.arekm@pld-linux.org> X-Authenticated-Id: arekm Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 19 of October 2003 00:11, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > I've tried to create initramfs image with unpacking initrd image, [...] > > It doesn't work that way unfortunately (test8 with your patch). > > Yes and no - it *is* unpacked, but currently we have no code that would > try to run something from initramfs. If you want to play with that - > add something like run_init_process("/init"); right before the call of > prepare_namespace() in init/main.c (and be ready to have /init on > initramfs do the rest, obvoiusly). I see. So right now external initramfs image seems to be unusable (probably the same when compiling it in the kernel) right now. The quesion arrives - what was the reason to not put run_init_process("/linuxrc") by default there (like it is for initrd) ? -- Arkadiusz Mi¶kiewicz CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology arekm.pld-linux.org AM2-6BONE, 1024/3DB19BBD, arekm(at)ircnet, PLD/Linux