>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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
