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Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:

> I haven't been following the initramfs stuff, but now I have a question. 
> Currently we're using initrd to store a kernel and compressed ramdisk bundled
> together as an ~7MB single file that gets netbooted by firmware in a card.  Will
> it be possible to bundle initramfs together with the kernel into a single file
> in this same manner?

<shrug> kernel unpacks to rootfs after init_vfs_caches().  It does
	populate_root(archive_start, archive_size);
followed by releasing that area.  That's it.  If you have these variables
set - it will work, no matter how did the archive get there.


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