Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of thekernel.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 23:22:23 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:

I certainly agree, pushing more and more into initrd just annoys the
hell out of me.

I'd argue to include everything needed to build (and esp cross build) an
initrd into the kernel - up until that point initrds are useless.


I tried to push for that two years ago. I'd be more than happy to pull that out of the freezer.

-hpa
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