richard lucassen <[email protected]> writes: > Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Plus the drivers for various hardware like cciss devices, just >> > having ext4 built in is not enough. Wouldn't it be better to have a >> > simple initramfs with just the apropiate modules for the hardware? >> >> No computer I've either been using privately or professionally ever >> suddenly grew a new motherboard (simplification) overnight. Hence, >> they're all running kernels with the drivers and filesystems necessary >> for booting compiled in. > > Of course, but I presume that we're talking about a kernel that will be > distributed by Devuan. If you build in hardware drivers for all > different types of hardware, the kernel gets somewhat big IMHO ;-)
Some signals crossed here. I was trying to explain that "a distribution" has to use initrd/ initramfs because of problems specific to distribution kernels but that individual users don't have to use this mechanism if they don't want to because they can just compile a kernel which will work with their hardware (which is usually rather static). _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
