Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:07:01 -0500 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Dracut -- Cross distribution initramfs infrastructure |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:54:54PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > As davej started talking about a few months ago at Kernel Summit and > LPC, there's a lot of duplication between distros on the tools used to > generate the initramfs as well as the contents and how the initramfs > works. Ultimately, there's little reason for this not to be something > that is shared and worked on by everyone. Added to this is the fact > that everyone's infrastructures for this have grown up over a long-ish > period of time without significant amounts of reworking for the way that > the kernel and early boot works these days. > > Therefore I've started on a new project, dracut, to try to be a new > initramfs tool that can be used across various distributions. From the > README...
It looks like Hannes has also been working on a new, modular initramfs for a while:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hare/mkinitrd.git;a=summary
I hope you guys can get together and agree on one implementation..
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