From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik van Konijnenburg Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:25:20 +0000 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.11, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts Message-Id: <20050809232520.B12865@banaan.localdomain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Version 0.0.11 of yaird is now available at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird-0.0.11.tar.gz Yaird is a proof of concept perl rewrite of mkinitrd. It aims to reliably identify the necessary modules by using the same algorithms as hotplug, and comes with a template system to to tune the tool for different distributions and experiment with different image layouts. It requires a 2.6 kernel with hotplug. There is a paper discussing it at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html Summary of user visible changes: * Support configuration file that determines what the generated image should do. It replaces command line options for root file system selection and for NFS support. * The file /etc/hotplug/blacklist does not have to exist: this can be a machine without hotplug, or with a future hotplug version, where blacklisting is delegated to module-init-tools. Based on patch by Marian Andre * Bugfix: expect characters A-Z, in kernel config entries. * Handle kernels that do not have ide-generic. Changes in version 0.0.10 and 0.0.9 were too small to merit an announcement: * Support legacy keyboard compiled as module. * Place the docs under GPL instead of GFDL for the benefit of Debian. Regards, Erik ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel