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On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0800, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> For one thing, we already have people asking for more than 4 GiB
> worth of initramfs, and especially with initramfs that huge it would
> make a *lot* of sense to allow loading it in chunks without having to
> concatenate them.

Yeah, tglx gave me his use case on IRC where they have the rootfs in the
initrd and how they would hit the limit when the rootfs has a bunch of
debug libs etc tools, which would blow up its size.

> I have been asking for a long time for initramfs creators to split the
> kernel-dependent and kernel independent parts into separate initramfs
> modules.

Right.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette