Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Al Boldi wrote:
> Thanks for your very useful docPatch!
>
> OT, but your docPatch made me think of another way to init the kernel; via 
> tmpfs, i.e. initTmpFS.
>
> Can anybody see how that could be useful?

Useful, yes, but this has turned out to be fairly complex.  tmpfs needs 
a *LOT* more of the system to be fully operational than ramfs, and the 
rootfs is initialized very early on, since one of its purposes is to 
eliminate special cases.

	-hpa
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