Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:01:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs
> > > on the building system.
> >
> > Right. The caveat to this is "dep" mode. The default mode for
> > initramfs-tools is to include all of the modules that you're likely
> > interested in booting with in the initramfs and detecting which ones to
> > use at boot time. If you ask it to detect which modules are needed, it
> > needs a valid sysfs tree to scan (although it is resiliant in that case
> > against module name changes)
>
> Ah, interesting.
>
> Notice that in some case, the "most" mode will produce to huge initrd that are
> possibly not supported by the kernel/bootloader/firmware. This may be the case
> on some prep boxes on powerpc at least.
even ozlabs has no prep boxes around.
(that means no upstream support in the kernel afaik)
are there any user evidence?
--
maks
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