Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:07:01 -0500
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: initramfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
        Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, cjwatson@ubuntu.com,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Dracut -- Cross distribution initramfs infrastructure
Message-ID: <20081217190700.GA15377@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:54:54PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> As davej started talking about a few months ago at Kernel Summit and
> LPC, there's a lot of duplication between distros on the tools used to
> generate the initramfs as well as the contents and how the initramfs
> works.  Ultimately, there's little reason for this not to be something
> that is shared and worked on by everyone.  Added to this is the fact
> that everyone's infrastructures for this have grown up over a long-ish
> period of time without significant amounts of reworking for the way that
> the kernel and early boot works these days.
> 
> Therefore I've started on a new project, dracut, to try to be a new
> initramfs tool that can be used across various distributions.  From the
> README...

It looks like Hannes has also been working on a new, modular initramfs
for a while:

	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hare/mkinitrd.git;a=summary

I hope you guys can get together and agree on one implementation..
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