linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel

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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:43:10 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     hpa@...or.com
Cc:     Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, corbet@....net,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        eric.snowberg@...cle.com, jgross@...e.com,
        kanth.ghatraju@...cle.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        mingo@...hat.com, rdunlap@...radead.org, ross.philipson@...cle.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0800, hpa@...or.com wrote:
> For one thing, we already have people asking for more than 4 GiB
> worth of initramfs, and especially with initramfs that huge it would
> make a *lot* of sense to allow loading it in chunks without having to
> concatenate them.

Yeah, tglx gave me his use case on IRC where they have the rootfs in the
initrd and how they would hit the limit when the rootfs has a bunch of
debug libs etc tools, which would blow up its size.

> I have been asking for a long time for initramfs creators to split the
> kernel-dependent and kernel independent parts into separate initramfs
> modules.

Right.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette