Re: The (unnecessary) overhead of initramfs

2009-07-29 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: The initramfs scripts spend a lot of wasted time and effort doing things that really don't need to be done: In the framebuffer init-top script: modprobe -q intel_agp modprobe -q i915 modprobe -q ${FB} ${OPTS}

[Acked/cmt] [CVE-2014-9090] x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS

2014-12-08 Thread Andy Whitcroft
| 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 13 + 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) These look ok as far as one can tell. I believe we have test code to go with them, so assuming that says yay: Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft a...@canonical.com -apw

Bug#769576: linux: Btrfs goes forced readonly when qgroup already exists

2015-01-04 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:05:24PM +0100, Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk wrote: Control: submitter -1 ! Hello Joe, On Sat 3 Jan 2015 at 16:02:12 -0500, Joseph Salisbury wrote: Would it be possible for you to also open a bug in Launchpad for this? It can be done by running the following from

Bug#795833: initramfs-tools: add mountroot failure support to allow meaningful messages and recovery attempts

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Whitcroft
setups. We use this in Ubuntu to allow augmented lvm2 and mdadm hooks to recover failed raids and the like. NOTE: that the splash handling here may well be Ubuntu specific. -apw From 2f96b329734edeb03d769da83cce1dc06e6c81bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft a...@canonical.com Date: Mon, 25

Bug#795832: initramfs-tools: allow the specificication of multiple break points using a comma delimiter

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft a...@canonical.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:17:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allow specifying multiple break points using a comma delimiter. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft a...@ubuntu.com --- scripts/functions | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Bug#795831: initramfs-tools: ensure error output from switch_root/run-init are on the console

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Whitcroft
223559b93fc219987fd8cbe50efdd9e73f220f81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft a...@canonical.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:35:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add 21 to the run-init line. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft a...@ubuntu.com --- init | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff

Bug#795837: initramfs-tools: calls dpkg with obsolete relation operator ''

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Whitcroft
00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft a...@canonical.com Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:27:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update-initramfs: switch dpkg --compare-versions from to = to avoid warnings from dpkg. (LP: #1480340) Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft a...@ubuntu.com --- update-initramfs | 2 +- 1 file

Bug#795839: initramfs-tools: When adding i8042 also add psmouse as some keyboards are behind the mouse

2015-08-17 Thread Andy Whitcroft
From: Andy Whitcroft a...@canonical.com Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:32:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] When adding i8042 also add psmouse as some keyboards are behind the mouse. LP: #1314764 * hook-functions/auto_add_modules: include psmouse as some keyboards are connected to the pass-thru port

Bug#799443: initramfs-tools: avoid executing firmware and maintain symlinks

2015-09-19 Thread Andy Whitcroft
apw >From f7d9025b736edbd771fc5befc256d556a2f4204b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:51:59 + Subject: [PATCH 1/2] hook-functions: when copying firmware, don't use copy_exec When copying firmware, don't use copy_exec; running ldd on random firmware files is ann