Dave Cinege wrote:
>What this has that initramfs doesn't:
> Clean up and rewrite of the system already in place.
> The use of tar archives
> Multiple archive support
> Works good, right now
>
>
indeed :)
>What initramfs has that this doesn't:
> Load image from a 'linked' kernel location.
> Uses CPIO archives
>
>
early userspace, which is the whole point of the exercise.
We want to move a bunch of stuff _out_ of the kernel to userspace.
Jeff
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