From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: The (unnecessary) overhead of initramfs Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:16:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20090729161655.GG20210@shadowen.org> References: <1248871245.23840.46.camel@quest> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1248871245.23840.46.camel@quest> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scott James Remnant Cc: ubuntu-boot-oU9gvf+ajcQ97yFScArB1dHuzzzSOjJt@public.gmane.org, kernel-team-nLRlyDuq1AZFpShjVBNYrg@public.gmane.org, initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, maximilian attems , debian-kernel-0aAXYlwwYIJuHlm7Suoebg@public.gmane.org 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? -apw -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html