Olivier Galibert wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
I guess at some point we will need a file system in there, but - oops -
we already have one, dont we? :)
Well, you could put .config in it too.
Frankly, a filesystem that:
- can be somehow linked with vmlinux and not separate like an initrd
- editable post vmlinux-linking
- gives files that can be accessed from request_firmware, acpi and
friends even rather early in the boot process (i.e. well before any
userland is allowed to exist)
- accessible post-boot through mounting of a special fs and/or /proc or something
would be quite useful.
This exists. It's called initramfs. Read the kernel code :)
Jeff
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