netdev - Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

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Message-ID: <49B95907.4010404@weinigel.se>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:48:39 +0100
From:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
To:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, nhorman@...driver.com,
	shemminger@...tta.com, s.hauer@...gutronix.de, yanok@...raft.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	wd@...x.de, dzu@...x.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> However there was some attempt to get a reference initrd build into
> the kernel.  Did that go anywhere?  It would actually be good to use
> that if it exists.

That would be a very worthwhile project actually.  Create a package that 
uses klibc, does BOOTP/DCHP/NFS and parses the the ip=foo,bar options 
the same way the kernel does so that we can finally get rid of the in 
kernel stuff.  That, the code that reads an initrd from a floppy disk 
(nobody can really be using that code anymore, can they?), and the md 
setup are probably the last obstacles to doing a nice little cleanup of 
the mount_root code in the kernel.

I just wish I had more time.

   /Christer

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