Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 11:50:59 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:31 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2008 16:39:48 -0700 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > > > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > I certainly agree, pushing more and more into initrd just annoys the > > > hell out of me. > > > > > > I'd argue to include everything needed to build (and esp cross build) an > > > initrd into the kernel - up until that point initrds are useless. > > > > > > > I tried to push for that two years ago. I'd be more than happy to pull > > that out of the freezer. > > Its kind of irrelevant if you need an initrd or not. The only question of > relevance is "does it get built when I type make all". Almost all Linux > users are using initrd without problem - because their distro ensures > "make install" and the packaged kernels do the right thing.
Its my own convenience I'm serving here. I hardly ever do a local install. And for the old machines a local build just isn't even an option.
It's what benh said; I just want a single netbootable image. And cross buildling initrds is just impossible - which makes the whole solution useless.
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