From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCF0C5DF63 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 19:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DBC20869 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 19:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=alien8.de header.i=@alien8.de header.b="YEKNuwnX" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727550AbfKFTnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2019 14:43:19 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:57382 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726713AbfKFTnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2019 14:43:19 -0500 Received: from zn.tnic (p200300EC2F0E770015F12088A3A733FB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2f0e:7700:15f1:2088:a3a7:33fb]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 476DB1EC0CCC; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:43:17 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1573069397; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=ispzmoCNVnfldM6nKX7veRr0TPeyd0yKxE1spA1TaBc=; b=YEKNuwnXhFvXTQKghtkDmqtoKBfr+3vCzK+52VXSmLJzHsUMi2Eszo+4Y3+CPZzZ6FR7Wr Psetif/T1gU5xoavkZKEWuju6VydeqZkc4MLlwubc0Ojq+5x3OB7HoSoavN8i3HRs6/KPM GUFBk8Z/klTXeVYa+6vDlVbXTmDuni4= Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:43:10 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: hpa@zytor.com Cc: Daniel Kiper , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, corbet@lwn.net, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, eric.snowberg@oracle.com, jgross@suse.com, kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, mingo@redhat.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, ross.philipson@oracle.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes Message-ID: <20191106194310.GE28380@zn.tnic> References: <20191104151354.28145-1-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> <20191106170333.GD28380@zn.tnic> <3EABBAB2-5BEF-4FEE-8BB4-9EB4B0180B10@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EABBAB2-5BEF-4FEE-8BB4-9EB4B0180B10@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-efi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0800, hpa@zytor.com wrote: > For one thing, we already have people asking for more than 4 GiB > worth of initramfs, and especially with initramfs that huge it would > make a *lot* of sense to allow loading it in chunks without having to > concatenate them. Yeah, tglx gave me his use case on IRC where they have the rootfs in the initrd and how they would hit the limit when the rootfs has a bunch of debug libs etc tools, which would blow up its size. > I have been asking for a long time for initramfs creators to split the > kernel-dependent and kernel independent parts into separate initramfs > modules. Right. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette