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Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 11:12:21 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:10:24AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com> wrote:
> > Thanks! Can you confirm if any Android or Brillo builds are already using it?
>
> Also more importantly, any chance you can provide any technical
> reasons why initramfs cannot be used, or it was decided to not use it
> on these systems? It should help others in the future as well.
Some systems just don't need it, nor want it. We can't break working
systems, so this is not something we can remove, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
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