Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.) BIOS RAID development

Dominik Kubla
2004-02-09T17:54:32Z

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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