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SubjectRe: Query about initramfs and modules
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:01:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
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> This also solves the "coldplug" problem, where you need to load
> pci/usb/foobus drivers _after_ init has started. To do this you need to
> rely on scanning the busses from userspace and loading the needed
> drivers. Why reimplement this scanning logic, as the kernel already did
> all of this (and usually did a much better job at it) during the boot
> process before init started.

Hmm. AFAICS this also implies that one would have to put /all/ drivers
for /any/ hardware possibly plugged in at boot time on the initramfs.
Or will /sbin/hotplug provide the ability to just put requests it
can't resolve with the modules on the initramfs into some sort of
queue file, which is read by /sbin/coldplug (or whatever) later on in
the boot process to load drivers for those from the real root fs?

> And this allows lots of horrible "boot over NFS" and other network
> code/hacks in the kernel to be moved out of kernel space, and into
> userspace, where it really belongs.

Having to put all drivers for all PCI/USB/whatever stuff on the
initramfs will likely be a problem (regarding disk space) for people
who need to boot the kernel from a floppy disk without having to
change disks during boot (think of nfsroot without etherboot).

Andreas
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