Followup to: <D52B19A7284D32459CF20D579C4B0C0211CB2C@mail0.myrio.com>
By author: "Torrey Hoffman" <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> My concern is with the minority who are using initrd, and in
> some cases a very customized initrd.
>
They can presumably use whatever they already do, except they'll make
it into a .cpio.gz file instead of an .img.gz file.
> The important thing, I think, is that it should be easy for
> less-than-guru level hackers to add programs to the initramfs,
> even if the program they want can't be linked with klibc.
>
> This really comes down to: What will the build process be for
> these initramfs images?
>
> By the way, is initramfs intended to supercede initrd, or will
> they co-exist?
Eventually supercede; it will let us pull out an amazing amount of
crud.
-hpa
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