From: Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.) BIOS RAID development
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:54:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040209175421.GD1795@intern.kubla.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4027BBDE.1090300@pobox.com>
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:57:02AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Thomas Horsten wrote:
> >My gut feeling is that if it is provided by the BIOS and reliable
> >autodetection is possible, it should be autodetected. Why require the user
> >to discover and supply information that the kernel could easily and
> >reliably find out by itself? Besides, if there is no autodetection, the
>
> The autodetection will occur, reliably and without additional user
> information, from initramfs.
>
> As Arjan said, we are moving this type of stuff out of the kernel.
>
> Jeff
Is there any existing code using initramfs? So far all i have seen is
very incomplete. I would love to move to initramfs and get rid of
mkinitrd, but too many pieces seem to be still missing...
Regards,
Dominik Kubla
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-09 1:23 New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.) BIOS RAID development Thomas Horsten
2004-02-09 2:47 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-09 2:56 ` Thomas Horsten
2004-02-09 9:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-09 12:01 ` Thomas Horsten
2004-02-09 12:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-09 12:37 ` Thomas Horsten
2004-02-09 16:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-09 17:54 ` Dominik Kubla [this message]
2004-02-09 22:39 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-09 18:00 ` Thomas Horsten
2004-02-09 22:40 ` Neil Brown
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