Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755500AbYA1I1q (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:27:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752092AbYA1I1j (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:27:39 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:59528 "EHLO embla.aitel.hist.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552AbYA1I1j (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:27:39 -0500 Message-ID: <479D91BE.7050503@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:26:38 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds , Jon Masters , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 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> In-Reply-To: <1201299979.27573.11.camel@lappy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 699 Lines: 16 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. > Debian is easy enough - make sure the drivers for the root device and root fs is built-in, and you can drop the initrd. Takes a second or two off the boot, and some more off the build. Helge Hafting -- 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/