Re: Path to kmods

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Thu 13 Nov 2008 at 22:23:24 +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 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).

which has always struck me as way too complicated and inconvenient.

-Olaf.
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