From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:08:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050826190851.GB12296@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124996732.5848.9.camel@singularity.jenkins>
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> I'm curious as to why the kernel has to include the decoder - why
> you can't just run a self-extracting executable in an empty
> initramfs (with a preset capacity if needs be).
You could do tht right now if you wished.
We just support decompression in the kernel because it's not overly
painful to do so (the code exists and works fairly well for the most
part). The code to do so isn't ver large and it's marked __init too
(well, it should be).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-26 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-25 19:05 Alan Jenkins
2005-08-26 10:37 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-26 19:08 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
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2005-09-03 8:29 Chuck Ebbert
2005-08-27 8:19 Kent Robotti
2005-08-27 21:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-27 21:42 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-27 22:45 ` Kent Robotti
2005-08-27 22:42 ` David Weinehall
2005-08-27 22:57 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-08-27 23:38 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-27 23:41 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-08-28 0:21 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-08-28 5:36 ` Willy Tarreau
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2005-08-26 15:49 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-08-26 6:09 Kent Robotti
2005-08-26 1:39 dwilson24
2005-08-26 19:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-26 20:08 ` Kent Robotti
2005-08-26 20:22 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-26 21:34 ` Kent Robotti
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2005-08-27 3:21 ` Kent Robotti
2005-08-27 4:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-25 19:32 dwilson24
2005-08-25 18:23 robotti
2005-08-25 18:15 robotti
2005-08-25 19:10 ` Ian Campbell
2005-08-26 10:29 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-25 15:38 robotti
2005-08-25 16:00 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-26 19:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-25 15:34 robotti
2005-08-25 15:54 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-26 15:03 ` Horst von Brand
2005-08-25 4:35 robotti
2005-08-25 13:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-25 4:32 robotti
2005-08-25 13:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-24 22:41 robotti
2005-08-25 3:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-24 3:15 robotti
2005-08-23 22:05 robotti
2005-08-24 2:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-24 20:52 ` Wakko Warner
2005-08-24 20:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-23 21:16 robotti
2005-08-23 21:24 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-08-25 3:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
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