Re: Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2009-09-10 01:22]: Why? The /dev/ram* devices are not needed anymore for the early boot with 2.6 kernels, unless there is something fundamental I am missing this driver should become modular. Apparently it used to be needed by debian-installer, but

Re: Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 19:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Marco d'Itri wrote: Why? The /dev/ram* devices are not needed anymore for the early boot with 2.6 kernels, unless there is something fundamental I am missing this driver should become modular. Apparently it used to be needed by

Debian-installer use of initrd (was Re: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y)

2009-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Marco d'Itri wrote: Why? The /dev/ram* devices are not needed anymore for the early boot with 2.6 kernels, unless there is something fundamental I am missing this driver should become modular. Apparently it used to be needed by debian-installer, but that doesn't seem to be the case any more.