Mike Touloumtzis wrote:
> > Yes that would work, and it would work on machines with less RAM too.
> > You would want to remove the cramfs filesystem code when you're done though.
>
> Some of the files in the boot time FS would need to
> be kept around, such as the ACPI code, right?
Perhaps. They could be copied to a ramfs by the user-space code :-)
On this theme, it's just occured to me that the module loader could be
taught to map ramfs pages directly to module code/data space. That
would save a little memory.
-- Jamie
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