[klibc] initramfs as an initrd replacement

[Andrew Morton]

"Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:20, Daniel Toussaint wrote:
> 
> 
> > The best I could come up with was modifying /init/do_mounts.c to skip
> > over all the initrd loading stuff - then it worked. 
> > My question is, is there a  way to use an initramfs archive as a
> > rootfilesystem, without patching the kernel source? 
> 
> No, there isn't.  Someone submitted such a patch to Andrew Morton a few
> months ago, but I don't see any trace of it in the mainline kernel as of
> 2.6.0-test7.
> 

I vaguely seem to recall that it broke the build in some way.  May be wrong
about that.