> 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? You could include a loop-back mountable filesystem image. But that's not even nessecary. The kernel will call /init of the files in the initramfs, and you could just store everything you'd store in the loopback filesystem directly in the initramfs image.