From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query about initramfs and modules
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:41:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020116194121.GC32184@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15428.47094.435181.278715@irving.iisd.sra.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201152226100.4339-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201152226100.4339-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Tue Jan 15, 2002 at 10:29:12PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Can/will the initramfs mechanism be made to implicitly load into the
> > kernel the modules (or some of the modules) in the image?
>
> No. The point of initramfs is to remove crap from kernel and switch
> to using normal code paths for late-boot stuff. _Adding_ insmod
> analog into the kernel? No, thanks.
Keep in mind that insmod current needs to incorporate a full ELF
interpreter in userspace (and the source code needs to know about
all the types of relocations and jump for each arch and for 32
and 64 bit ELF. Horrible stuff really. If we could cleanup the
kernel's insmod implementation to require merely a syscall
passing a filename to the kernel, it would sure make the
initramfs smaller and simpler. I believe Rusty made a patch to
do this sort of thing....
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-16 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-15 23:15 Query about initramfs and modules David Garfield
2002-01-15 23:34 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 23:47 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 0:01 ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 0:33 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 1:16 ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 19:29 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-16 19:40 ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 19:53 ` Jordan Crouse
2002-01-16 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 17:53 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 19:04 ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 3:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 19:41 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-01-16 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 20:18 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-16 20:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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