On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Matthew Summers <quantumsumm...@gentoo.org> wrote: > In point of fact all modern Linux kernels have an initramfs built in > now, that when empty is effectively bypassed, so there is no wheel > reinvention. To quote the docs [1]
Yes, but that embedded initramfs doesn't actually do much of anything right now. It may exist from an architecture standpoint, but it doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of work to be done which would be redundant with work already done elsewhere. I can see where you might want a simpler solution than dracut as an alternative for more embedded setups/etc. It probably would be cleaner to just create a new solution than modify dracut to get rid of udev/etc. In any case, as long as a solution exists for md+lvm+luks+/usr before we start breaking more stuff than is already broken, then we should be fine. Having more than one optional solution is fine. While I don't think that gentoo needs to be another Ubuntu, having reasonable out-of-the-box support for one of the major desktop environments running on md+lvm+luks seems pretty useful. Rich
