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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:57:21AM -0700, Huimin Zhang wrote: |
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>> The logic for choosing which partition to boot and maintaining the two |
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>> partitions will be handled in the init of initramfs, and the functionality |
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>> of generating such an initramfs could be patched into genkernel. |
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> As the genkernel author, there have been debates about replacing the |
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> initramfs-generation portion with Dracut (which requires porting of some |
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> of the existing initramfs functionality to Dracut) [this is probably a |
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> GSOC project candidate as well, but it'll be a lot of work]. |
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I'm not sure what genkernel functionality dracut is actually missing, |
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but you could certainly use dracut even without porting any additional |
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functionality to it. Since dracut is highly modular it is probably a |
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good starting point. |
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If anybody does port genkernel functionality to dracut I suggest doing |
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it in coordination with upstream so that this isn't some kind of |
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Gentoo-specific patch (or more likely a set of modules). |
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Rich |
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