Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Kconfig help text for RAM Disk & initrd | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:37:36 -0500 |
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On Sunday 16 October 2005 19:02, Felix Oxley wrote: > From: Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org> > > Amend Kconfig help text for RAM Disk & initrd to suggest that > these features should be answered Y. > Remove loadlin as an example of a boot loader, replace with grub. > > Signed-off-by: Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org> > --- > --- ./drivers/block/Kconfig.orig 2005-10-17 00:20:18.000000000 +0100 > +++ ./drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-10-16 23:57:18.000000000 +0100 > @@ -368,9 +368,11 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM > Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as > a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and > write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal > - block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and > - store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM > - during the initial install of Linux. > + block devices (such as hard drives). > + > + It is usually used to load and store a copy of a minimal root file > + system into RAM during the boot sequence. "Inital RAM disk support" > + must also be enabled for this option to work.
Actually if this is a patch against 2.6, between ramfs (including initramfs) and the ability to loopback mount files, I personally consider ramdisks semi-obsolete. (This might be _why_ it says most normal users won't need them.)
> config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT > int "Default number of RAM disks" if BLK_DEV_RAM > @@ -403,11 +407,12 @@ config BLK_DEV_INITRD > depends on BLK_DEV_RAM=y > help > The initial RAM disk is a RAM disk that is loaded by the boot loader > - (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot > + (lilo or grub) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot > procedure. It is typically used to load modules needed to mount the > "real" root file system, etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> > for details. > > + Most users will answer Y here.
Again, on 2.6, most users will probably answer N and will instead use initramfs.
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