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Message-ID: <474372BC.2000609@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:50:20 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> 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 ? Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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) > We do. Am I missing something? -hpa - 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/
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