On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 15:42 -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > Initrams have no use except for distros that might meet an > unpredictable huge variety of hardware configurations, useless for > any particular configuration which should have its own customized > kernel.
On the contrary - a non-intitramfs system is only functional in a very narrow case, where the hardware is known, and where the rootfs is a simple block device. The distro problem is mostly the former - but also consider the case where the rootfs is on more complex storage that requires user-space tools to set up. Think network mounts, fancy arrays, encrypted storage, etc. Just because you can get away without one, doesn't mean they don't have a lot of value beyond what you're envisaging. Simon.
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