From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754896AbYE3DWW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 23:22:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752611AbYE3DWM (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 23:22:12 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54085 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752581AbYE3DWK (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 23:22:10 -0400 Message-ID: <483F3EC4.5050700@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:39:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Jeff Garzik , David Woodhouse , ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, David Miller Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. References: <1211995212.3445.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080528.225826.40264516.davem@davemloft.net> <1212041839.8888.38.camel@pasglop> <20080529124548.GC8065@mit.edu> <1212077700.26088.83.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <483F002E.5060002@garzik.org> <1212095864.24826.2.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> In-Reply-To: <1212095864.24826.2.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > I certainly agree, pushing more and more into initrd just annoys the > hell out of me. > > I'd argue to include everything needed to build (and esp cross build) an > initrd into the kernel - up until that point initrds are useless. > I tried to push for that two years ago. I'd be more than happy to pull that out of the freezer. -hpa