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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:20:17 -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:
>
>>>> 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?
>
> do we have a single-image way of getting both the kernel image and the
> initram set up at once? What i know of is a two-image approach: vmlinuz
> and initrd.
>
Yes, we do. The initramfs can be linked into the kernel image. The
unified klibc build tree does that by default.
-hpa
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