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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.
From:       Miles Bader <miles () lsi ! nec ! co ! jp>
Date:       2002-10-30 9:19:07
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 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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