Booting OS on PowerPC

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:52 -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:17 AM, René Rebe wrote:
> >
> > 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 ,-)
> >
> 
> External initrd? or externally loaded initramfs?

Another reason why I'll veto attemps to remove support for external
initrd or initramfs is that there are still recurring issues with old
machines when it comes to loading really large images.

Ben.