Re: The (unnecessary) overhead of initramfs

[Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 07/29/2009 12:16 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
>> The initramfs scripts spend a lot of wasted time and effort doing things
>> that really don't need to be done:
>>
>> In the "framebuffer" init-top script:
>>
>>    modprobe -q intel_agp
>>    modprobe -q i915
>>    modprobe -q ${FB} ${OPTS}
>
> These may be the source of an issue we are seeing with radeon drivers.
> That when using a pure AMD system you get the i915 driver loaded for
> no apparent reason.  I presume these should be -b even if they were
> not redundant?
>

Why is this being discussed on this list when this has nothing to do 
with dracut?

Warren
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