From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751945AbWG0Swh (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:52:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751948AbWG0Swg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:52:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:56275 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751945AbWG0Swg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:52:36 -0400 Message-ID: <44C90B6F.5070000@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:52:31 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Boldi CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt? References: <200607272026.57695.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <200607272026.57695.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Al Boldi wrote: > > Thanks for your very useful docPatch! > > OT, but your docPatch made me think of another way to init the kernel; via > tmpfs, i.e. initTmpFS. > > Can anybody see how that could be useful? > Useful, yes, but this has turned out to be fairly complex. tmpfs needs a *LOT* more of the system to be fully operational than ramfs, and the rootfs is initialized very early on, since one of its purposes is to eliminate special cases. -hpa