Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> wrote:
> * Herbert Xu
>
> | Very few people really need cramfs if they're building custom kernels.
> | This is because initrd only makes sense when you're building for a
> | large number of machines. If you're building a custom kernel, just
> | compile in all the drivers you need for mounting root and that's that.
>
> Except if you want to use EVMS or similar on /, in which case you need
> the evms userspace tools on the initrd. (Using 2.6, that is, in 2.4
> the discovery is done in kernel-space.)
That's right.
But even in that case you don't need cramfs as romfs should work.
Cheers,
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