[ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.12, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

[ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.12, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

[Erik van Konijnenburg]

Version 0.0.12 of yaird is now available at:
	http://yaird.alioth.debian.org

Yaird is a proof of concept perl rewrite of mkinitrd.  It aims to
reliably identify the necessary modules by using the same algorithms
as hotplug, and comes with a template system to to tune the tool for
different distributions and experiment with different image layouts.
It requires a 2.6 kernel with hotplug.  There is a paper discussing it at
the above location.

Hmm, now that hotplug is being replaced with udev, it's time to come up
with a new blurb ...

Anyway, since the tool now has it's own project page and mailing list
at alioth, I plan to announce future releases only on yaird-devel,
no longer on linux-hotplug-devel or linux-kernel.

Summary of user visible changes:
     * Support EVMS
     * Support new hardware: DAC960, Apple MESH, Compaq SmartArray,
       IBM zSeries.
     * Configuration files are now in /usr/local/etc/yaird
       or /etc/yaird, no longer in /usr/local/lib/yaird/conf.
     * Avoid ide-generic if at all possible, because it's slower than
       other IDE drivers.
     * The initrd example template is no longer installed.
       While it is nice that supporting initrd is possible
       in principle, there are no benefits in practice over
       using initramfs, and keeping it in working order is a pain.
     * Module 'fbcon' is now loaded by default; this should allow
       using a framebuffer console.
     * Adapt for mdadm > 1.9.0 output format.
     * Adapt for input driver from 2.6.15 kernel.
     * New 'OPTIONAL MODULE' keyword for configuration file.
     * Bugfixes:
       - blacklist was sometimes ignored.
       - missing line number from template file in some error messages.
       - some variants of fstab format were not recognised:
         LABEL=/, fstype 'auto', fstype 'ext3,vfat', missing fields

Regards,
Erik

Re: [Yaird-devel] [ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.12, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:22:35AM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> Hmm, now that hotplug is being replaced with udev, it's time to come up
> with a new blurb ...

Notice that hotplug or udev or whatever are just the userland tools used to
handle the kernel-side hotplug events, so it is a story of two names, a bit
like initramfs-tools and initramfs :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther