Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262680AbTHUOUK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:20:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262711AbTHUOUK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:20:10 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:18629 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262680AbTHUOUG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:20:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3F44D504.7060909@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:19:48 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" CC: gkajmowi@tbaytel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Initramfs References: <200308210044.17876.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net> <1061447419.19503.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> In-Reply-To: <1061447419.19503.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 23 Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > No. initramfs is stuck in limbo at the moment, and early userspace is > unlikely to see any real work until 2.7. Feel free to ask questions, > but don't expect them to result in anything actually happening. > > If you want to do real work in this area, the klibc mailing list is the > place to go: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/klibc Correct, though there is one thing I am thinking about adding to 2.6: Support replacing "initrd=" with "initramfs=", so that bootloaders can pass a cpio image into the standard initrd memory space. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/