From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christer Weinigel Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:48:39 +0100 Message-ID: <49B95907.4010404@weinigel.se> References: <49B91A7B.7050303@weinigel.se> <20090312151211.GB24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B93777.7030202@weinigel.se> <20090312.104345.68580544.davem@davemloft.net> <49B94BCA.6090309@weinigel.se> <20090312180638.GG14491@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , nhorman@tuxdriver.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, yanok@emcraft.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de To: Jamie Lokier Return-path: Received: from 2-1-3-15a.ens.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.31.214]:54679 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751469AbZCLSsn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:48:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090312180638.GG14491@shareable.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jamie Lokier wrote: > However there was some attempt to get a reference initrd build into > the kernel. Did that go anywhere? It would actually be good to use > that if it exists. That would be a very worthwhile project actually. Create a package that uses klibc, does BOOTP/DCHP/NFS and parses the the ip=foo,bar options the same way the kernel does so that we can finally get rid of the in kernel stuff. That, the code that reads an initrd from a floppy disk (nobody can really be using that code anymore, can they?), and the md setup are probably the last obstacles to doing a nice little cleanup of the mount_root code in the kernel. I just wish I had more time. /Christer