Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 1996 19:43:32 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Patch to support initrd with dynamic ramdisks. |
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From: greg@wind.enjellic.com (G.W. Wettstein) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:18:02 +0000
First of all thanks to Paul Gortmaker for his work on dynamic and compressed ramdisk support. I am finding that his work makes single boot/root/rescue disks once again feasible. Also thanks to Werner Almesberger and Hans Lermen for their work on the initrd system. It in combination with the dynamic ramdisk support has been very useful in generating single disk starter systems.
Just to give credit where credit is due, the dynamic and compressed ramdisk support was done by Chad Page and myself. Chad did the initial implementation, and I then cleaned it up (and modularized the decompression code so it was shared by the ramdisk and kernel loader routines), and submitted it to Linus.
Paul Gortmaker wrote the documentation in the Documentation subtree, which is very important, and deserving of credit. However, the real kudus for the actual work on the dynamic compressed ramdisk needs to go to Chad Page.
- Ted
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