Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 04:00:31 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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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>
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