viro@math.psu.edu said:
> > Have you thought about supporting .tar.gz into ramfs? Creating custom
> > boot images would be simpler.
> *uh*. It's definitely easier to do than it used to be, but I'm
> seriously sceptical about adding more cruft into the thing.
The really neat part of untarring into a ramfs-root is that it allows you
to remove a whole pile of other unnecessary cruft - ll_rw_blk and all the
other crap for dealing with block devices and buffer_heads.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n
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