Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:07:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:07:09 -0500 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:32386 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:07:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. From: Alan Cox To: dcinege@psychosis.com Cc: Jeff Garzik , Rob Landley , Linux Kernel Mailing List , reiser@namesys.com, davem@redhat.com, boissiere@adiglobal.com In-Reply-To: <200210300322.17933.dcinege@psychosis.com> References: <200210272017.56147.landley@trommello.org> <200210300229.44865.dcinege@psychosis.com> <3DBF8CD5.1030306@pobox.com> <200210300322.17933.dcinege@psychosis.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 30 Oct 2002 14:32:34 +0000 Message-Id: <1035988354.5140.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1075 Lines: 29 On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 08:22, Dave Cinege wrote: > > untar - cpio is better. > > CPIO is commonly used and supported by NO ONE. (rpm, whoppee) > Kernels even come tar'ed. KISS.... I'm sorry but if you can't work cpio you probably shouldnt be hacking kernels anyway. If you can work it and have to deal with cow-orkers who can't then write them a nice drag and drop cpio builder. > Great...you just killed the high level embedded linux market, and > the ability to play boot games from GRUB. (Network, etc) > Initrd is a good **OPTION* to have to fall back on... They all work with initramfs > Do you have any serious sysadmin, clustering, or emebedded system > IMPLEMENTATION experience? I do and I don't see the problem. The one reason you want to keep initrd around is ROM and there are better ways of doing "initromfs" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/