Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

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Al Boldi wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:

+Compressed cpio images

OT, but your docPatch made me think of another way to init the kernel; via tmpfs, i.e. initTmpFS.

Can anybody see how that could be useful?

That is exactly what Tom describes, except it is called initramfs
and goes into ramfs - which is mostly the same as tmpfs.

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