Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752247AbaFVVat (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2014 17:30:49 -0400 Received: from top.free-electrons.com ([176.31.233.9]:44857 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbaFVVas (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2014 17:30:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:30:00 -0300 From: Ezequiel Garcia To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Ezequiel Garcia , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Introduce 'noinitramfs' kernel parameter Message-ID: <20140622212959.GA766@arch.cereza> References: <1403415685-21455-1-git-send-email-ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> <20140622145329.GA19936@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20140622145329.GA19936@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Henrique, On 22 Jun 11:53 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > This commit adds a new kernel parameter to provide such option, following the > > naming of the current 'initrd' which serves a similar purpose, for an initial > > RAM disk. > > How does it interact with the early initramfs? > > Maybe we should have the options to ignore both, ignore just the early > initramfs (to skip microcode updates and ACPI table updates), and ignore > just the main initramfs? > I must admit I don't have much experience with any "earlier" initramfs. Maybe you can point me at some links about this? Unless I'm missing something, this "early" initramfs is an userspace artifact in the construction of the initramfs, so the kernel has no way to distinguish one from the other. Thus, we cannot mount one and not the other. -- Ezequiel Garc?a, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering http://free-electrons.com -- 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/