<x-flowed>At 04:47 PM 2/3/01 -0600, "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>For whoever was asking about initrd-dynamic, I stuck what Dave C. sent me
>on my website after checking with him. It can be found in the new
>experimental directory of my kernel tree:
>http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/kernel/experimental/rd.dyn.c
Charles,
It was me. I just wanted to know if it was part of Butterfly. I gather it
isn't after reading the paragraph below. Thanks.
>Since I've spent all of about 30 seconds looking at this, you now know as
>much about it as I do. From conversations with Dave, I believe it is
>based on some work someone sent him that decompresses & untars the initial
>ramdisk archive in-place, rather than using /dev/ram1 as a ping-pong
>buffer, which is what the previous code did. Dave's recent goal has been
>to get multiple tar.gz files loaded and uncompressed by the kernel at boot
>time, allowing the boot-loader to do system customization (thereby
>allowing the packaging system to not have to worry about boot-strapping a
>partially functional system, but just which packages to load).
--
Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
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