Re: Initramfs

[Jeff Garzik]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> 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.


initramfs _must_ act like a file system ;-)

Basically, instead of rd+ext2, you have rootfs.

	Jeff



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