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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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       Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:05:47PM -0400, robotti@godmail.com wrote:

> I was just making a suggestion to whoever it may concern, because I
> think it would extend the usefullness of initramfs.

I have a path for initramfs to use tmpfs.  It's sorta hacky so I never
submitted it and solves a niche problem for embedded people.

Ultimately we might one day still want to change how we initialize the
early userspace (Al suggesting a reasomably nice way to move the
decompressor(s) to userspace for example) so I don't feel there is a
compelling reason to do more than cleanups in this area right now.