Re: patch for Documentation/initrd.txt?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Al Boldi wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Al Boldi wrote:
> > > Thanks for your very useful docPatch!
> > >
> > > 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?
> > Useful, yes, but this has turned out to be fairly complex.
>
> Sounds like somebody tried this before?

Several people, yes.

> > tmpfs needs
> > a *LOT* more of the system to be fully operational than ramfs, and the
> > rootfs is initialized very early on, since one of its purposes is to
> > eliminate special cases.
>
> So would it be possible to remap rootfs from ramfs to tmpfs, once tmpfs is 
> initialized, without actually doing another cpio?

That sounds nasty.

	-hpa
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