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Chances are you don't want to re-flash your firmware on your servers just to change what kernel you run in production. The kernel in flash also has space constr
by hugelgupf 9y ago
Chances are you don't want to re-flash your firmware on your servers just to change what kernel you run in production. The kernel in flash also has space constraints that will make it a pretty small kernel with a lot of features turned off.
- euyyn 9y agoTannenbaum is spinning in his chair.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoIn fact, you'd have to reflash to update Firefox! Oh wait, Firefox won't even fit on the ROM chip. No wonder we don't use the ROM chip as our main storage...
- hugelgupf 9y agoYou could have a tiny initramfs that mounts the disk you want with your actual init and then switch_root to that. You'd have the kernel from flash, and init from disk.