>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.
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