Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

[Eugene Crosser]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
        Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Doesn't the approach "treat a chunk of data built into bzImage as
>> populated ramfs" look cleaner?  No need to fiddle with tar format,
>> no copying data from place to place.
> 
> What the hell _is_ "populated ramfs"? The thing doesn't live in array
> of blocks. Its directory structure consists of a bunch of dentries.

I am stupid.  But the point still stays: having an image of pre-populated
filesystem (some other than ramfs) that you only need to load into
RAM seems more sutable than parsing tar format.  Maybe (probably) I am
missing something.

Eugene
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