Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.

[Miles Bader]

Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]> writes:
> >[Well, OK, actually it'd be nice to have something like initramfs + some
> >other sort of fetch-the-bits-directly-from-ROM FS which I could
> >mix-n-match; anyway initramfs has got to be better than initrd...]
> 
> It should be pretty easy to populate initramfs from ROM...

Actually what I was trying to say was that often I don't want to copy
from ROM to RAM, I just want to have file reads get the bits directly
from ROM (to avoid using, um, RAM).

Currently I do this by using a romfs filesystem stored in an MD device
which is reading from ROM.

-Miles
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