I was also looking at initramfs but from documentation I found it, appears to expand the cpio.gz into a tmpfs (i.e. RAM) before using it. Since the cpio.gz is embedded into the kernel (i.e. RAM again), won't this take twice the memory relative to embedding a cramfs/squashfs directly in the kernel? We only need read-only access and I believe these file systems can be read in their compressed form without expanding and consuming more RAM. Marc Domen Puncer wrote: > On 05/02/07 12:41 -0800, Marc St-Jean wrote: > > What is the MIPS-way of embedding the rootfs with the kernel? > > For 2.6.x (on all? architectures) initramfs. > > > Domen >
