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Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, David Lang wrote:
> 
> > doesn't matter, they are likly to be found on dedicated servers where
> > the flexibility of modules is not needed and the slight performance
> > advantage is desired.
> >
> > making everything modular is fine for desktops/laptops but why should
> > dedicated servers pay the price?
> 
> There should be no price.  And AFAICS that's doable.

I haven't been following the initramfs stuff, but now I have a question. 
Currently we're using initrd to store a kernel and compressed ramdisk bundled
together as an ~7MB single file that gets netbooted by firmware in a card.  Will
it be possible to bundle initramfs together with the kernel into a single file
in this same manner?

Thanks,

Chris


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