On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0500, Kumba wrote: > Ahh, I see. Ralf pointed me at CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE in 2.6.10. My > patch was based on 2.6.9, and I didn't exactly think this specific bit of > the kernel would change between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10. Go figure. > > It looks like this option, which afaict, doesn't seem to have an entry > anywhere in Kconfig, specifies a list of files for inclusion in a cpio > archive that's bundled into the kernel. My question then is, can a > lookback-mountable filesystem image be included in this list, and the > kernel, given /dev/ram0 as root, know to mount and use the loopback image? I guess you and many others don't realize the speed of the Linux evolution these days. Between 2.6.10-rc1 and 2.6.10-rc2 there's about 9MB of patches. Even if much of the code is not changing - the halftime for patches has reduced quite a bit ... Ralf
