Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd | From | antlists <> | Date | Sat, 4 Jul 2020 01:18:48 +0100 |
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On 03/07/2020 04:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole >> ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other >> drivers. But this magic overload got removed in commit ff26956875c2 >> ("brd: remove support for BLKFLSBUF"), so this call is entirely >> pointless now. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> > > Does *anyone* use initrd as opposed to initramfs anymore? It would seem > like a good candidate for deprecation/removal. > Reading the gentoo mailing list, it seems there's a fair few people who don't use initramfs. I get the impression they don't use initrd either, though.
I don't know too much about booting without an initramfs - I switched ages ago - so what is possible and what they're actually doing, I don't know.
Cheers, Wol
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