Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757571AbYAZA2g (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:28:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754283AbYAZA23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:28:29 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:56556 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753431AbYAZA22 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:28:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds , Jon Masters , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080126000526.GA24559@elte.hu> References: <20080125071127.GA4860@kroah.com> <20080125185213.GA23475@suse.de> <479A3ED3.6020808@goop.org> <1201296027.32422.80.camel@perihelion> <479A5B72.6080701@goop.org> <1201299979.27573.11.camel@lappy> <20080126000526.GA24559@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:27:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1201307242.27573.13.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.21.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1104 Lines: 28 On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 01:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > My wish is that distros would just boot without requiring an initrd. I > > know how to make them for redhat and debian based distros, but the > > fact that you can't (easily) cross-build them makes it a very tedious > > construct. > > all it takes for me on Fedora is to boot a modular distro kernel once, > then copy the /dev to the real (persistent) /dev: > > mkdir /tmp2 > mount /dev/sda1 /tmp2 > cp -a /dev/* /tmp2/dev/ > > and from that point on a bzImage/vmlinuz can boot up on Fedora without > any problems (as long as it has the right drivers built in), and the > initrd line can be removed from grub.conf. Yeah, I usually do the same but with a bind mount, still it would be grand if such things would not be needed. -- 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/