linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.

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Message-ID: <ortzgfebzj.fsf@oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 18:08:32 -0300
From:	Alexandre Oliva <oliva@....ic.unicamp.br>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.

On May 30, 2008, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> It's what benh said; I just want a single netbootable image. And cross
> buildling initrds is just impossible - which makes the whole solution
> useless.

Unless you actually use the feature added in the first patch of the
series, that enables you to build firmware images into your single
netbootable image, that is ;-)

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