Le 01/01/2016 20:05, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
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).
There might be an optional kernel featuring sata, scsi and a few
popular filesystems. That would match the vast majority of cases.
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