From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750736AbWG0Ufp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:35:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbWG0Ufp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:35:45 -0400 Received: from [212.33.163.93] ([212.33.163.93]:62475 "EHLO raad.intranet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbWG0Ufo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:35:44 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:35:36 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200607272026.57695.a1426z@gawab.com> <44C90B6F.5070000@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <44C90B6F.5070000@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1256" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607272335.36819.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. Sounds like somebody tried this before? > 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. So would it be possible to remap rootfs from ramfs to tmpfs, once tmpfs is initialized, without actually doing another cpio? Thanks! -- Al