Re: Fw: RFC [PATCH] 1/2 disable initramfs

2006-12-13 Thread Al Boldi
Jean-Paul Saman wrote: > Al, > > Thank you for reviewing my other patch and telling me it was wrong. I am > working for an embedded HW manufacturer doing linux kernel ports to their > arm platforms. In an attempt to minimize the amount of code that needs to > be loaded from flash in an embedded sys

Fw: RFC [PATCH] 1/2 disable initramfs

2006-12-13 Thread Jean-Paul Saman
Al, Thank you for reviewing my other patch and telling me it was wrong. I am working for an embedded HW manufacturer doing linux kernel ports to their arm platforms. In an attempt to minimize the amount of code that needs to be loaded from flash in an embedded system I identified 60 Kbytes of c

RFC [PATCH] 1/2 disable initramfs

2006-12-06 Thread Jean-Paul Saman
The file init/initramfs.c is always compiled and linked in the kernel vmlinux even when BLK_DEV_RAM and BLK_DEV_INITRD are disabled and the system isn't using any form of an initramfs or initrd. In this situation the code is only used to unpack a (static) default initial rootfilesystem. The ini