Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: > On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:06:38 +0800 > Brad Campbell <lists2...@fnarfbargle.com> wrote: > >> On 02/01/16 02:18, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> > Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: >> > >> > [...] >> >> > For a real deployment, this is usually just humbug and can be >> > replaced with a kernel containing the drivers necessary for >> > mounting a root filesystem. >> >> That's nice, until you want to do something like an encrypted root, >> or encrypted swap with suspend/resume. That's pretty hard without an >> initramfs. > > Why does everyone think I was advocating the banishment of initramfs? > Go back to my initial post and you'll see I was suggesting a way to > give the owner/admin a *choice* to go without initramfs.
You already have that choice, you just need to exercise it: Compile a kernel which can mount 'your' root filesystem without the help of additional userspace software, be it for loading modules or for additional configuration, and use that: No initsomething needed. In fact, that's exactly the configuration I've been using 'since ever'. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng