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Re: Path to kmods



On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Johnny Billquist wrote:
It's self-contained but everything exists for boot.  Once root is mounted,
the unused module can be discarded from memory and that memory reclaimed.

Setup as a ramdisk at boot, then? But if so, we need atleast that fs in the kernel.

IIUC that's what Linux does with the initrd (initial RAM disk that has modules and other 'vital' stuff).


 - Hubert


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