Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262920AbTHUWmG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:42:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262923AbTHUWmG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:42:06 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:6122 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262920AbTHUWmE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:42:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3F454AA5.3000602@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:41:41 -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: Werner Almesberger CC: "Bryan O'Sullivan" , gkajmowi@tbaytel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Initramfs References: <200308210044.17876.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net> <1061447419.19503.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> <3F44D504.7060909@pobox.com> <20030821193113.A3448@almesberger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030821193113.A3448@almesberger.net> 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: 720 Lines: 26 Werner Almesberger wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Support replacing "initrd=" with "initramfs=", so that bootloaders can >>pass a cpio image into the standard initrd memory space. > > > This sounds like a very good idea, yes. > > Or, maybe even make it such that initramfs acts like a file system, > that will just de-cpio the content of a block device to a ramfs. initramfs _must_ act like a file system ;-) Basically, instead of rd+ext2, you have rootfs. 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/