Booting OS on PowerPC

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Monday 12 December 2005 11:14, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> > Except I am guessing that our "don't overwrite the initrd with the 
> > device tree" logic might break.  In other words, prom_init.c might 
> > need updating.
> 
> Yeah -- there needs to be a transition period where prom_init.c
> accepts both ways, with a warning to update yaboot if needed.
> 
> On the other hand, do people find external initrd's useful at
> all still, or is everyone using built-in initramfs?  If so, we
> could just deprecate initrd caompletely.

I prefer exteran initrd's since they are easier to regenerate
e.g. on u/dev update and so on. I rather would not like to see
that support be removed - I hope other distributors agree ,-)

Yours,

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René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany)
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