[PATCH-RFC] init: simplify initrd code (was Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/62] initrd: remove classic initrd support).

Askar Safin safinaskar at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 15:57:21 AEDT 2025


On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM <nschichan at freebox.fr> wrote:
> - drop prompt_ramdisk and ramdisk_start kernel parameters
> - drop compression support
> - drop image autodetection, the whole /initrd.image content is now
>   copied into /dev/ram0
> - remove rd_load_disk() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.

I welcome any initrd simplification!

> Hopefully my email config is now better and reaches gmail users
> correctly.

Yes, I got this email.

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Askar Safin


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