From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932244AbWDKBzq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:55:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932255AbWDKBzq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:55:46 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.182]:30802 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932244AbWDKBzp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:55:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RpZIitN6FI05slNsq5p8eNd7ZEp5QDR1Bb3IwO0INJN2n93LATbjjrjwKcwQ/yB7UE2Beho9FepGHRVrFs7MppcxhxB9JK6FYwG9nFA3JCtptimvwVEqd/iBf5yL3QhClxy4a5ng2ZmTS4xspU/Agr4K1EEQLeAFpBXWQAfj5rQ= Message-ID: <5d4799ae0604101855o72f01453l438d0d4d628bbb7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:55:45 +1000 From: "Kris Shannon" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Separate Initramfs dependency on initrd (and therefore ramdisks) In-Reply-To: <5d4799ae0602170820j33795815u7104bd41c7fe7e67@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <5d4799ae0602170820j33795815u7104bd41c7fe7e67@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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