> I don't like the current initrd very much myself, I have to admit. I'm not
> going to accept a "you have to have a ramdisk" approach - I think the
> ramdisks are really broken.
>
> But I've seen a "populate ramfs from a tar-file built into 'bzImage'"
> patch somewhere, and that would be a whole lot more palatable to me.
Doesn't the approach "treat a chunk of data built into bzImage as
populated ramfs" look cleaner? No need to fiddle with tar format,
no copying data from place to place.
Eugene
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