Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753927AbXKUCt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:49:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751555AbXKUCtU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:49:20 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37461 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751548AbXKUCtT (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:49:19 -0500 Message-ID: <47439C77.7070805@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:48:23 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , 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: <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> <474372BC.2000609@zytor.com> <20071121000742.GN23667@elte.hu> <474379C1.2040703@zytor.com> <20071121003629.GA20765@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20071121003629.GA20765@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1084 Lines: 33 Ingo Molnar wrote: > single-bzImage initrd > was and is possible, Correct (though s/initrd/initramfs/). Take a look at usr/Makefile for how initramfs is automatically included in the image, right now. The intention at the time was to quickly follow up this stub (generated by gen_init_cpio) with a full inclusion of klibc + some basics like nfsroot. It should be a very straightforward step to go from what we have today to including klibc initramfs into the kernel image. > so we could in fact move chunks of system-related > userland (such as irqbalanced) into the kernel proper? s/kernel/kernel tree/ I presume you mean... With regards to irqbalanced, if you are thinking about including it in initramfs, you would need to work out the details of how userland/distros modify the default policy configurations. Jeff - 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/