linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?

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Message-ID: <20071121000742.GN23667@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:07:42 +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:

>>> 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.

	Ingo
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