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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [klibc] Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup"
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:31:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050808143151.GA6332@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508081610400.29195@alpha.polcom.net>

 On Mon, Aug 08, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

> >From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use 
> initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate file 
> by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel.

The file passed from the bootloader to the kernel, which is later
eventually recognized as an initrd, can be everything. But the kernel
code to deal with the memory range containing the file is behind
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD. The new config options should depend on
BLK_DEV_INITRD

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-08 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08 13:59 [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup" Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-08 14:19 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-08-08 14:31   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2005-08-08 14:57     ` [klibc] " Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-08-08 15:37   ` H. Peter Anvin

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