From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750942AbVHXDPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:15:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750943AbVHXDPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:15:30 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02-smtplb.rdc-nyc.rr.com ([24.29.109.6]:13048 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.rdc-nyc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750941AbVHXDPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:15:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:15:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200508240315.j7O3FRGe003071@ms-smtp-02.rdc-nyc.rr.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-URL: mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8.6dev.13a From: robotti@godmail.com Subject: Initramfs and TMPFS! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >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. I found that there is a patch that does what I suggested, but it needs to be updated to support the latest 2.6 kernel. http://lwn.net/Articles/14394/ Dave Cinege's patch. http://ftp.psychosis.com/linux/initrd-dyn/kernelpatches/2.5.45/initrd_dynamic-2.5.45.diff.gz If you point me to your patch, I'll try it.