On 03/14/2012 12:28, Matthew Summers wrote: > > Gentoo provides a solution with genkernel, dracut provides a solution, > even the linux kernel itself provides a solution (in my view the > easiest solution at that).
The kernel doesn't appear to create the networking interfaces, though. CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is only going to handle things that physically exist within /dev, of which, ethernet devices have always been excluded. If that can get fixed in some fashion, then devtmpfs pretty much does make this a non-issue. > I just wanted to drop this simple fact in there. This has been coming > for several years now AND the linux kernel has been using an initramfs > for every boot, every time for a long time now, all 2.6 and up as I > understand it. If the initramfs is empty, well the kernel is smart > enough to fall back on "legacy" boot process. initramfs was introduced in 2.6.10, and prior to that, only a handful of architectures even supported a built-in initrd (MIPS was one, and it wasn't very pretty or functional). I believe other distros required the bootloader to pass the initrd to them somehow, but having never used an initrd in that fashion, I don't know for certain. But yes, if you enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC, you're essentially turning on (or utilizing) an initramfs accessible via /proc. -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
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