Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup"

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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

At present the configuration items for initramfs is located in:
Device drivers | Block Drivers | xxx

This is maybe not the most natural place to have it.
So with the following patch it is moved below "General setup",
and relevant config items are collected in a file with a new
home in usr/.

The original reason why I looked into this is the upcoming merge of klibc
and I missed a good place to include the KLIBC relevant config options.
With the Kconfig file added to usr/ is will be a simple menuconfig
in here for all the KLIBC relevant config options.

Any comments?

From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use
initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate file by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel.

Am I right? If so, could somebody split initramfs and initrd (not only at configuration level but also at code level)? Shouldn't they be separated (and possibly initrd removed after some time)? In the mean time it should be documented in *config help.

Also somebody should add more documentation about initramfs (generating, writing scripts, producing image, the right method for chroot / pivot_root / ...). It took me whole week to find it out myself and I still have some doubths...


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski
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