Re: Initramfs

[Werner Almesberger]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Support replacing "initrd=" with "initramfs=", so that bootloaders can 
> pass a cpio image into the standard initrd memory space.

This sounds like a very good idea, yes.

Or, maybe even make it such that initramfs acts like a file system,
that will just de-cpio the content of a block device to a ramfs.

Pro:
 - requires less or no changes to existing initrd
 - one can experiment with initramfs loaded from other sources than
   an initrd

Contra: 
 - needs more infrastructure than plain initramfs

- Werner

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