want to clarify a couple things about initramfs

2016-06-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for the first time, i'm going to dive into the kernel support for initramfs, so i'll start with a couple questions. first, i note that the Doc file ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt seems(?) a bit dated, in that it refers to the 2.6 kernel, but it may just mean that it's relevant for 2.6 and

Re: want to clarify a couple things about initramfs

2016-06-19 Thread Nathan Williams
On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 09:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is all that still accurate? again, i'm sure i can confirm that once > i start digging through the code. in my case, i don't think i'll need > an external initramfs if i can cram everything i need into the one > embedded in the kernel.