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From: "Kris Shannon" <kris.shannon.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Separate Initramfs dependency on initrd (and therefore ramdisks)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:55:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d4799ae0604101855o72f01453l438d0d4d628bbb7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d4799ae0602170820j33795815u7104bd41c7fe7e67@mail.gmail.com>

A number of distributions (most importantly for me - Debian) use the
initrd as initramfs facility.  I assumed that the passing of the data
block would be independent of ram disks seeing as not using a ram
disk was one of the major reasons for initramfs,  but it seems that
you need CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y which depends on
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y

Would a patch separating out the init image handling from the initrd
handling be welcome and if so should the resulting init image code
be dependant on a CONFIG variable or always on (like initramfs is now)

The only reference to this I found in the archives was:

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/0097.html

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-11  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-17 16:20 Kris Shannon
2006-04-11  1:55 ` Kris Shannon [this message]
2006-04-11  8:57   ` Michael Tokarev

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