Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762376AbXKTXyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:54:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756275AbXKTXye (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:54:34 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45175 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765147AbXKTXyc (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:54:32 -0500 Message-ID: <474372BC.2000609@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:50:20 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Mark Lord , Arjan van de Ven , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ? References: <47425EA5.7000607@rtr.ca> <200711201517.16171.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20071119213727.16d5917b@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200711201837.39664.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20071120064747.2a8036cd@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20071120220110.GF24156@elte.hu> <47436C43.6010200@rtr.ca> <20071120232723.GB23667@elte.hu> <47436ECD.3050004@zytor.com> <20071120234725.GH23667@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20071120234725.GH23667@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 28 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> * Mark Lord wrote: >>> >>>> Perhaps, but this also violates the principle that the kernel should just >>>> *work* with sensible defaults. I don't use an initrd, or an initramfs, >>>> and have no intention of ever doing so. >>> nor do i - i was under the impression that klibc was able to work out of a >>> bzImage too? Am i wrong? >>> >> Nope. It runs inside an initramfs, of course; that initramfs is >> linked into the kernel binary. > > would be nice to have a single-image variant for all of this. having the > separate initrd was always trouble - and it's pointless as well. (we > rarely update the initrd without updating the vmlinuz as well) > We do. Am I missing something? -hpa - 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/