Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:43:10 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes |
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0800, hpa@zytor.com wrote: > For one thing, we already have people asking for more than 4 GiB > worth of initramfs, and especially with initramfs that huge it would > make a *lot* of sense to allow loading it in chunks without having to > concatenate them.
Yeah, tglx gave me his use case on IRC where they have the rootfs in the initrd and how they would hit the limit when the rootfs has a bunch of debug libs etc tools, which would blow up its size.
> I have been asking for a long time for initramfs creators to split the > kernel-dependent and kernel independent parts into separate initramfs > modules.
Right.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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