From: Alessandro Amici <lists@b-open-solutions.it>
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is anyone using the load_ramdisk= option in the kernel still?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:03:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410261603.30707.lists@b-open-solutions.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <clkheo$otl$1@terminus.zytor.com>
hpa,
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 05:48, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> So, in short:
>
> a) Does anyone use the load_ramdisk= option anymore, or is it
> legitimate to drop?
I'm pretty sure it is used by the Debian installer when bootstrapping from a
floppy, but...
> b) If it is necessary to retain, does anyone care if this option would
> only support gzip format in the future, i.e. NOT support uncompressed
> filesystem images? Since a gzip stream is self-terminating, this
> takes care of the problem of finding the end, but adds a sizable chunk
> of code to the kinit binary.
... the image is read from a raw device (/dev/fd0) and it is gzipped.
Booting the installer is probably the only large scale use case for the
load_ramdisk parameter.
Cheers,
Alessandro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 3:48 Is anyone using the load_ramdisk= option in the kernel still? H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-26 13:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-26 14:03 ` Alessandro Amici [this message]
2004-10-26 14:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-10-26 14:41 ` Alessandro Amici
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