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Hi, |
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I would like to work on the project Dracut port to gentoo. |
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Dracut is a new generation initramfs system which is initially developed by |
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Fedora team. It replaces the concept of hard coded initramfs different |
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distros as well as live cd, thinclient, install cd etc. It introduces a high |
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level modular approach in initramfs. Also it enables much faster boot by |
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reducing the always spend (around 5 seconds) in initramfs space. |
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Another improvement I would like to work on is about Gentoo LTSP |
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integration. Gentoo LTSP is having some conflicts about genkernel's network |
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modules generation. Hence gentoo ltsp project needs some resolution |
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regarding this issue. Udev can be used with initramfs instead of hardcoded |
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kernel module loaders, it will load modules upon requirement. Also it can |
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handle firmware loading. |
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Also I would like to port Plymouth bootsplash also to the initramfs. Hence |
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Gentoo users can enjoy the nice plymouth bootsplash. It can also be used in |
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LTSP as the part of integration. |
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Dracut can be used to resolve some of the LTSP integration issues and it |
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will benefit the gentoo booting process. |
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[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut |
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Happy Hacking, |
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Sarath Lakshman |
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http://www.sarathlakshman.info |
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