From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Sunil Naidu <akula2.shark@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.20-rc4 - Kernel panic!
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:08:12 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.113437f9eecab84a@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8355959a0701111211m416e202bx637bca22f8fca826@mail.gmail.com>
Sunil Naidu wrote:
> compiling a driver as module has same affect (while
> loading/booting of kernel) compare to compiling a driver as kernel
> builtin feature?
LKML is not the place for such questions.
Modules have to be loaded from a filesystem while built-in features are
available from the start.
The bootloader only loads the kernel image and optionally an initrd. The
initrd is used as a preliminary root filesystem which may contain kernel
modules to load to make the real root filesystem accessible. That's what
distributors do because they don't know in advance which drivers their
users will actually need. Endusers who build their own kernels might as
well compile all drivers that are needed for access to the root
filesystem into the kernel image and work without initrd.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-11 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-11 11:00 Akula2
2007-01-11 18:28 ` Stefan Richter
[not found] ` <8355959a0701111211m416e202bx637bca22f8fca826@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-11 21:08 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-01-11 21:29 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-01-11 22:57 ` Stefan Richter
2007-01-11 18:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-11 20:25 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-01-11 21:38 ` Randy Dunlap
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