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| From: | Peter Hjalmarsson <xake@×××××××××.net> |
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| To: | gentoo-genkernel@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-genkernel] [PULLREQUEST] Documentation cleanup and handling of init |
| Date: | Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:48:30 |
| Message-Id: | 1343112449.12435.21.camel@lillen.dodi |
| 1 | Hi all. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | I just want to ask if we can pull branch xake into master. |
| 4 | What I am trying to achieve is for us to adhere more to the kernels |
| 5 | documentation of boot params [1] where there really is no reason for us |
| 6 | diverge. |
| 7 | Doing that has two big advantages: |
| 8 | 1. The Gentoo Documentation team (and other gentoo-devs) does not need |
| 9 | to have two examples for bootloader configurations, one for people with |
| 10 | and one for people without a genkernel initramfs. |
| 11 | 2. documentation from upstream and other distributions is more |
| 12 | applicable on us. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | The branch currently contains two commits, |
| 16 | commit 2293c0eff00260635f9d19035d1b397c7deb3853 [2] |
| 17 | This is a cleanup of cruft left behind by commit |
| 18 | d5b1e6a9852b18010f24c2f47edfff5daa221cf1 [3] made back in 2008. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | In short, since 2008 Genkernel have not supported creating traditional |
| 21 | linux-2.4 initrds, only linux-2.6 initramfs. Still the documentation |
| 22 | tells you that you: |
| 23 | 1. Need RAMDISK-support |
| 24 | - not needed nowdays since initramfs, unlike initrd uses ramfs |
| 25 | instead of ramdisk. |
| 26 | 2. Need real_root |
| 27 | - not needed since linux-2.6 does not need the information in "root=" |
| 28 | to setup a ramdisk for the initrd. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | |
| 31 | commit 232c865cbff2ffbe41f3ba98c142959e5e61414a [4] |
| 32 | This more or less mirrors the handling of root/real_root boot params for |
| 33 | init/real_init |
| 34 | |
| 35 | This because, just as for 2 above, we do not need the kernel to clobber |
| 36 | "init=" to boot a ramdisk since we stopped use initrds. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Regards |
| 40 | Peter Hjalmarsson |
| 41 | |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [1] |
| 44 | https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |
| 45 | [2] |
| 46 | http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/genkernel.git;a=commit;h=2293c0eff00260635f9d19035d1b397c7deb3853 |
| 47 | [3] |
| 48 | http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/genkernel.git;a=commit;h=d5b1e6a9852b18010f24c2f47edfff5daa221cf1 |
| 49 | [4] |
| 50 | http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/genkernel.git;a=commit;h=232c865cbff2ffbe41f3ba98c142959e5e61414a |