Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:57:37 +0200 (CEST) | From | Grzegorz Kulewski <> | Subject | Re: [klibc] Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup" |
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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > >>> From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use >> initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate file >> by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel. > > The file passed from the bootloader to the kernel, which is later > eventually recognized as an initrd, can be everything. But the kernel > code to deal with the memory range containing the file is behind > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD. The new config options should depend on > BLK_DEV_INITRD
[ Depend or select? ]
So this code should be separated from initrd and put in some other place and depend on initrd || initramfs.
From what I saw reading the code initrd is much more than this code so why keep it together?
Thanks,
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