You are making a very *big* assumption that the kernel can find the real root filesystem without userspace help. In cases where the kernel can't - initramfs/initmpfs is in fact very useful.
Show me a precise, real-life example, and I'll tell you how I would proceed. Or agree with you. Actually, Lauri has a point: if the root filesystem has to be in RAM (storage-less machines) then yes, initramfs is useful - as a real root filesystem; you probably don't even need to switch_root, which simplifies things a lot. But as far as machines with some kind of storage go, I've seen my fair share of them, and I've never encountered a case where initramfs was the best solution. I don't claim to have seen it all, though - there might be use cases I'm not aware of. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
