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From: Chris Coleman <chrsclmn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. initramfs redux
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:07:34
Message-Id: CAAve8qV-JTz9iqtZCGL_vphhKvOLQuEjvrCjK9WOX5U0UVVmXw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. initramfs redux by "Michał Górny"
1 On 6 August 2011 20:52, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > > > Then yes, such minimal initramfs should propably be covered in the
4 > > > embedded's documentation, but otherwise trying to avoid dracut is
5 > > > reinventing the wheel...
6 > >
7 > > You may be right, but to my understanding such a minimalistic initrd
8 > > would really do nothing special. Possibly a small shell script run
9 >
10 > You just transformed a minimalistic initrd into awfully complex command
11 > interpreter...
12 >
13
14 The /init on the initramfs should be a shell script, shouldn't it? If this
15 initramfs is going to be recommended in the handbook, we need to provide an
16 initramfs that isn't going to be too difficult to understand. Like one that
17 can be simply extracted, tweaked, and re-compressed.