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Change way to generate initfs for kernel

Jeremy Soller requested to merge kolipka:kernel_standalone into master

Created by: kolipka

this change should be merged along with corresponding PR in kernel (https://github.com/redox-os/kernel/pull/3)

Problem: [describe the problem you try to solve with this PR.] Decouple kernel from whole redox. It can be compiled on its own. Changing initfs folder location does not require modifications in kernel

Solution: [describe carefully what you change by this PR.] build scripts are changed to send initfs folder as a parameter ( env var: INITFS_FOLDER) to kernel build.rs script

Changes introduced by this pull request: As described above

Drawbacks: [if any, describe the drawbacks of this pull request.] has to be merged along with change in kernel repo

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