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    SubjectRe: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems


    On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Helge Hafting wrote:

    > Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > [...]
    > > We migth want to just make initrd a built-in thing in the kernel,
    > > something that you simply cannot avoid. A lot of these things (ie dhcp for
    > > NFS root etc) are right now done in kernel space, simply because we don't
    > > want to depend on initrd, and people want to use old loaders.
    > >
    > > I don't like the current initrd very much myself, I have to admit. I'm not
    > > going to accept a "you have to have a ramdisk" approach - I think the
    > > ramdisks are really broken.
    > >
    > > But I've seen a "populate ramfs from a tar-file built into 'bzImage'"
    > > patch somewhere, and that would be a whole lot more palatable to me.
    > >
    > > If anybody were to send me a patch that just unconditionally does this, I
    > > would probably not be adverse to putting it into 2.5.x. We have all the
    > > infrastructure to make all this a lot cleaner than it used to be (ie the
    > > "pivot_root()" stuff etc means that we can _truly_ do things from user
    > > mode, with no magic kernel flags).

    Open 2.5 and I'm starting to feed that stuff in pieces...

    > I am fine with "You have to use initrd (or similiar) _if_ you want this
    > feature."

    "Similar" == ramfs.

    > But please don't make initrd mandatory for those of us who don't
    > need ACPI, don't need dhcp before mounting disks and so on.

    How about "don't want to keep special-case code for mounting root in your
    kernel"? It's more than ramfs, BTW, and rm(1) on ramfs frees memory just
    fine.

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