[OLPC-devel] suggested requirement for new kernels and initrds: must boot under qemu and/or kexec as kernel and initrd before release as a stream

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Jul 4 18:12:46 EDT 2006


Ivan Krstic wrote:
> I've been meaning to ask the same thing -- initramfs is usually much
> nicer than initrds, and most everyone is moving to initramfs.
> 

good, we can get the build bugs fixed then :-)

e.g., just try to put two pathnames in the initramfs_list. Won't work.

But, yeah, initramfs is a great thing. I am biased though, cause the 
initramfs idea is how plan 9 has worked for at least 5 years now :-)

ron



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