martin f krafft wrote:
MFK> make-kpkg and kernel-patches/modules work just fine with vanilla
MFK> sources.
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
MDZ> Except with --initrd.
Doesn't this have to do with the cramfs patch? Wasn't this patch
rejected by Linus for some reason? IIRC, the cramfs patch is something
very specific to Debian kernels and is a workaround for a cramfs bug.
I did a google search on this because I wasn't familiar w/the
current/past discussion on the topic. It looks like our reference
documentation actually touches on this topic[1]. In any case, --initrd
can be configured to use a different filesystem for the initrd in
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.rc file.
Could someone explain why we still use the cramfs route if it's not
being adopted by the kernel gods in general? Is there a more "accepted"
filesystem that gives us the benefits of cramfs? I saw one person
suggest ISO. ext2 works fine. Perhaps cramfs' size profile was
the smallest in the kernel, which made it a good solution for Debian?
1. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch_kernel.en
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