* H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps, but this also violates the principle that the kernel should just
>>> *work* with sensible defaults. I don't use an initrd, or an initramfs,
>>> and have no intention of ever doing so.
>>
>> nor do i - i was under the impression that klibc was able to work out of a
>> bzImage too? Am i wrong?
>>
>
> Nope. It runs inside an initramfs, of course; that initramfs is
> linked into the kernel binary.
would be nice to have a single-image variant for all of this. having the
separate initrd was always trouble - and it's pointless as well. (we
rarely update the initrd without updating the vmlinuz as well)
Ingo
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