From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Marco <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] Pramfs: Include files
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:33:20 +0200
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On Monday 22 June 2009, Marco wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I meant it's not currently possible. At the moment the only way
> to use it as rootfs it's to copy all the data in an already mounted
> (empty) ram partition and reboot. However it's not my first item on my
> todo list because I think that it's possible to use it as rootfs but it
> isn't the standard use for this fs.

Well, it doesn't have to work right away. What I'm asking to
define the data structures in a way that keeps the layout stable
across kernel updates. Since a future version of the file system
might support cross-endian image creation, it would be good to
define the data structures in a fixed endian mode already, so
you don't have to change it in the future.

	Arnd <><
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