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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:34:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B46F3CE.9002ABAB@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <9i6oga$jk1$1@pccross.average.org>

Eugene Crosser wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107040956310.1668-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>,
>         Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.

So tell me, how do you populate ramfs without a format which tells you
what path and which permissions to assign each file?  That's exactly
what tar is.

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | A recent study has shown that too much soup
Building 1024    | can cause malaise in laboratory mice.
MandrakeSoft     |

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-07 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-04 10:37 [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems Dave J Woolley
2001-07-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 17:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05  8:20     ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-05  8:34       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-05 11:21       ` Alan Cox
2001-07-05 13:42       ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-05 15:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06  7:34         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-06  8:45         ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-06 11:16           ` Alan Cox
2001-07-06 12:42             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-09 23:05         ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-07 10:32     ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 11:32       ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-07 13:37         ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 13:50           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:24             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-07 21:31               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08  7:26                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-08 16:46                   ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-09 14:40                 ` Anthony DeBoer
2001-07-07 21:44               ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-07 11:34       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-07-07 21:40         ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 21:54           ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:00             ` arjan
2001-07-07 22:15               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:04             ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 22:14               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08  2:57                 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-12 15:57     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-12 16:14       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-12 21:18         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-06  5:26 Andreas Dilger

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