list of 2.6-related migration issues for embedded programmers?

Linh Dang linhd at nortelnetworks.com
Tue Jul 20 11:38:27 EST 2004


On 19 Jul 2004, wd at denx.de wrote:

> And as usual, there is two sides to initramfs. It may be convenient
> for some cases, where you can use the very same root filesystem
> image bundled with the kernel image, but exactly thsi convenience
> may hurt you in other cases where it's much better when you have
> separated images which can be updated independently of each other.

Maybe I missed some thing but:

        - I'm using initramfs in my current project (2.6.7)
        - I failed to see what in initramfs mechanism would prevent
          one from having "separated images which can be updated
          independently of each other."


Regards
--
L.D.


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