Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Garfield <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:15:02 -0500 | Subject | Query about initramfs and modules |
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Hearing all this talk about initramfs and eliminating hardwired drivers, it occurs to me to ask:
Can/will the initramfs mechanism be made to implicitly load into the kernel the modules (or some of the modules) in the image?
Doing so would allow the initramfs image to be composed solely of the modules to be loaded, which would reduce the need for the "klibc". It would also eliminate the need for any sort of control script to be in the image.
The only difficulty that I perceive in doing this is that the modules in question might need to be appropriately resolved and relocated before being put into the file image. I think this is a solvable problem, given that the kernel and its System.map should be available when building the image.
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