Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:41:21 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Query about initramfs and modules |
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On Tue Jan 15, 2002 at 10:29:12PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Can/will the initramfs mechanism be made to implicitly load into the > > kernel the modules (or some of the modules) in the image? > > No. The point of initramfs is to remove crap from kernel and switch > to using normal code paths for late-boot stuff. _Adding_ insmod > analog into the kernel? No, thanks.
Keep in mind that insmod current needs to incorporate a full ELF interpreter in userspace (and the source code needs to know about all the types of relocations and jump for each arch and for 32 and 64 bit ELF. Horrible stuff really. If we could cleanup the kernel's insmod implementation to require merely a syscall passing a filename to the kernel, it would sure make the initramfs smaller and simpler. I believe Rusty made a patch to do this sort of thing....
-Erik
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