Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:13:50 -0400

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
>>I guess at some point we will need a file system in there, but - oops -
>>we already have one, dont we? :)
> 
> 
> Well, you could put .config in it too.
> 
> Frankly, a filesystem that:
> - can be somehow linked with vmlinux and not separate like an initrd
> 
> - editable post vmlinux-linking
> 
> - gives files that can be accessed from request_firmware, acpi and
>   friends even rather early in the boot process (i.e. well before any
>   userland is allowed to exist)
> 
> - accessible post-boot through mounting of a special fs and/or /proc or something
> 
> would be quite useful.

This exists.  It's called initramfs.  Read the kernel code :)

	Jeff