[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20071120234725.GH23667@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:47:25 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps, but this also violates the principle that the kernel should just
>>> *work* with sensible defaults. I don't use an initrd, or an initramfs,
>>> and have no intention of ever doing so.
>>
>> nor do i - i was under the impression that klibc was able to work out of a
>> bzImage too? Am i wrong?
>>
>
> Nope. It runs inside an initramfs, of course; that initramfs is
> linked into the kernel binary.
would be nice to have a single-image variant for all of this. having the
separate initrd was always trouble - and it's pointless as well. (we
rarely update the initrd without updating the vmlinuz as well)
Ingo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists