Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

Dave Cinege
2001-12-23T00:46:39Z

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:26, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > I'm not arguing that the new initrd won't be better than the old initrd
> > (because obviously you are right) I'm arguing that no matter how whizzy
> > initrd is, it's still an unnecessary step, and it's one that other OSs
> > (e.g. FreeBSD) omit in favor of the approach I'm advocating.
>
> Learn to read. You don't _have_ to have initrd. At all. There's nothing
> to stop your loader from putting whatever cpio archive it likes - it
> doesn't involve anything other than slapping files you want together
> putting their owner/group/size/timestamps/mode/name before each of them.
> Anything that puts a bunch of modules in core will have to do equivalent
> job.

Deja Vu: *shrug* Your "all they have to do" is quite heavy.
(boot loader must implement full cpio/tar[/gzip}

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