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SubjectRe: Hardwired drivers are going away?
Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>:
> > Actually I think we may no longer be in tristate-land. Instead, some
> > devices have the property "This belongs in initramfs if it's configured
> > at all" -- specifically, drivers for potential boot devices. Everything
> > else can dynamic-load after boot time.
>
> Then all SCSI drivers end up in the initramfs for the install kernel for
> a distro? There might be _many_ devices configured that don't need to
> reside on the initramfs.

No worries. I have working code for a better approach now. It turns
out not to be that hard to discover the root device, controller, and bus.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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