From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query about initramfs and modules
Date: 15 Jan 2002 18:09:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a22nc0$2fh$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15428.47094.435181.278715@irving.iisd.sra.com>
Followup to: <15428.47094.435181.278715@irving.iisd.sra.com>
By author: David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hearing all this talk about initramfs and eliminating hardwired
> drivers, it occurs to me to ask:
>
> Can/will the initramfs mechanism be made to implicitly load into the
> kernel the modules (or some of the modules) in the image?
>
No. The bulk of the work of module loading is the job for insmod.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-16 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-15 23:15 Query about initramfs and modules David Garfield
2002-01-15 23:34 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 23:47 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 0:01 ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 0:33 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 1:16 ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 19:29 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-16 19:40 ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 19:53 ` Jordan Crouse
2002-01-16 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-16 17:53 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 19:04 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 3:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 19:41 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-16 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 20:18 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-16 20:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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