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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
> >[Well, OK, actually it'd be nice to have something like initramfs + some
> >other sort of fetch-the-bits-directly-from-ROM FS which I could
> >mix-n-match; anyway initramfs has got to be better than initrd...]
> 
> It should be pretty easy to populate initramfs from ROM...

Actually what I was trying to say was that often I don't want to copy
from ROM to RAM, I just want to have file reads get the bits directly
from ROM (to avoid using, um, RAM).

Currently I do this by using a romfs filesystem stored in an MD device
which is reading from ROM.

-Miles
-- 
[|nurgle|]  ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that 
            will  make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? 
[iddt]      nurg, that's the goal 
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