Subject: Re: TFTP'ing RAMdisk at root mount time (updated patch)
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/29/2007 09:38:38
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On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 04:33:42PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 06:28:01AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > 
> > it seems to me that this is duplicating a lot of what is in libsa.
> > infact, the patch has at least comment to that effect.  i wonder if
> > there is a better way to share this..
> 
> It may not be practical.  But if it is, we could do some interesting
> things like load the ramdisk from another file in a boot ustarfs by
> seeking to it by filename -- that would be pretty cool.

Regardless of how it would be implemented, this sounds like a neat idea 
yes.
Reinoud


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