Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)

Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09T22:16:21Z

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:55:34PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>
> I would think that is a good idea but I am not sure that is what is planned
> / will happen. Keeping it outside would have the advantage that a newer
> partition recognizer (or whatever other code) can be applied to any
> existing kernel version (that supports initramfs).

This could be done anyway: just replace the initramfs image built by
the kernel build with anotherone built from another source tree. It
would be helpful though if the tools were distributed both standalone
and included into the kernel tree.

Andreas
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