Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1

[Stuart Lynne]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Hans de Goede <[e-mail]> wrote:
>As an embedded system developer myself, I would like to say that
>tftp-ing initrd is a good idea, and a usefull feature. Sure there are
>other ways, which don't involve the kernel, most of them however involve
>the mini-boot-loader most embedded systems have, which is different for
>each embedded system. So if it can be fixed in one uniform place why
>not?

>Now if you could find a significant number of embedded system developers
>saying, we don't need that that is kernel polution, then I would be
>impressed.

I'll weigh in as Yet Another Embedded System Developer that likes this idea
and thinks that it is a) useful and b) a good way to handle the problem.

If necessary I'll just add it to my existing patch set and continue to 
maintain it if I use it. Annoying but not, I guess, the end of the world
either.

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