From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262273AbVFIXON (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:14:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262399AbVFIXON (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:14:13 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:23256 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262273AbVFIXOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:14:07 -0400 Message-ID: <42A8CD2E.7020504@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:13:50 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Galibert CC: Andi Kleen , James Ketrenos , Netdev list , kernel list , "James P. Ketrenos" Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem References: <20050608142310.GA2339@elf.ucw.cz> <42A723D3.3060001@linux.intel.com> <20050609211242.GA30319@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050609211242.GA30319@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > >>I guess at some point we will need a file system in there, but - oops - >>we already have one, dont we? :) > > > Well, you could put .config in it too. > > Frankly, a filesystem that: > - can be somehow linked with vmlinux and not separate like an initrd > > - editable post vmlinux-linking > > - gives files that can be accessed from request_firmware, acpi and > friends even rather early in the boot process (i.e. well before any > userland is allowed to exist) > > - accessible post-boot through mounting of a special fs and/or /proc or something > > would be quite useful. This exists. It's called initramfs. Read the kernel code :) Jeff