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Re: The (unnecessary) overhead of initramfs



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> The initramfs scripts spend a lot of wasted time and effort doing things
> that really don't need to be done:
> 
> In the "framebuffer" init-top script:
> 
>   modprobe -q intel_agp
>   modprobe -q i915
>   modprobe -q ${FB} ${OPTS}

These may be the source of an issue we are seeing with radeon drivers.
That when using a pure AMD system you get the i915 driver loaded for
no apparent reason.  I presume these should be -b even if they were
not redundant?

-apw


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