Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/62] initrd: remove classic initrd support

Askar Safin
2025-10-09T08:43:36Z

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr> wrote:
> > Then in September 2026 I will fully remove initrd.
>
> Is there a way to find some kind of middle ground here ?

I still plan to fully remove initrd in September 2026.
Maintainers will decide whether they will merge my patchset.
You may try to convince them.

> I can send a patch for that but first I need to sort out my SMTP
> issues from the other day.

If you still have mail issues, consider applying for @linux.dev email,
they are free for Linux devs ( https://linux.dev/ ).

Also, I just tried to test whether your use case is still supported in
mainline (i. e. uncompressed initrd with root=/dev/ram0).
It turned out that on modern kernels you need to enable
recently introduced CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED to
make this work.
So, make sure to enable this when upgrading kernel.

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Askar Safin