>On Wed Oct 30, 2002 at 04:06:00AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>Miles Bader wrote:
>>
>>
>>>[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...
>>
>>
>
>I imagine so. But that still leaves everything in RAM. On a
>system with just 1 or 2 MB of ram (I have run Linux on such
>things :-) there really isn't much point in trying to use any
>sortof ramfs.
>
It depends on what you're talking about... if it's just the do_mount.c
and mount-root-filesystem code, that code gets unlinked and removed from
RAM completely after the kernel booting completes.
If it's other filesystem data you want hanging around after boot
completes, check out my reply to Miles... it's doable.
Jeff
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