Re: support for merged /usr in Debian
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016, at 19:59, Christian Seiler wrote:
> On 01/03/2016 10:53 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016, at 18:35, Christian Seiler wrote:
> >> My question would be: would those people here who have separate /usr
> >> and aren't using initrd be willing to put up with something like that?
> >
> > I don't know if they will, but the list of potential users for your hack
> > is a bit larger:
> >
> > As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot really support a
> > firmware-update/override "early initramfs" without a "boot" initramfs,
> > which is a really annoying limitation for anyone that doesn't want a
> > "boot" initramfs for whatever reason.
>
> Oh, I didn't know that. I've always used initrds on my systems for the
> last - I don't know - 15 years or so.
>
> Anyway, if I hear from enough people who'd actually use my piece of
> code, I'll make a real project out of it and package it for Debian.
> (Do you count yourself as one of those?)
No, but I've had to help a couple people that needed a microcode update
and couldn't make it work because they didn't use an initramfs. Not all
of them were Debian users, though.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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