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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
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Mike Touloumtzis wrote:
> > Yes that would work, and it would work on machines with less RAM too.
> > You would want to remove the cramfs filesystem code when you're done though.
> 
> Some of the files in the boot time FS would need to
> be kept around, such as the ACPI code, right?

Perhaps.  They could be copied to a ramfs by the user-space code :-)

On this theme, it's just occured to me that the module loader could be
taught to map ramfs pages directly to module code/data space.  That
would save a little memory.

-- Jamie
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