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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Initramfs
Date: 28 Aug 2003 13:07:03 -0700
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Followup to:  <3F44D504.7060909@pobox.com>
By author:    Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
> 

Note that the initrd= option is actually a boot loader option, not a
kernel option, so the name of the option shouldn't change.

But yes, an initramfs image loaded into initrd space should be
unpacked *on top of* what's already compiled into the kernel.

	-hpa
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