From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 3 April 2012, 19:00 UTC
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:23:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F724BE0.2030504@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F71E97E.9000105@gentoo.org>
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On 03/27/2012 12:23, Zac Medico wrote:
>> 2b) If one does not want to use an initramfs, one must use mdev
>
> I'd leave option 2b undocumented. It's fragile and it will only work up
> until something else breaks, and then we'll have another big "OMG they're
> forcing us to use an initramfs" discussion and have to update the
> documentation again.
Not undocumented, but with a link to this Wiki entry:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
And a BIG FAT WARNING that it's risky, and only suitable for extremely
simple system builds. It works fine for me on my main dev box and a VM.
I'll know how it works on MIPS when I get that machine properly updated.
Doesn't mean it'll work for everyone, but we're about choice, and we should
at least put a mention in, even if it's a choice that will be rarely taken.
--
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28
"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And
our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."
--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 7:50 [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 3 April 2012, 19:00 UTC Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-27 15:42 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 16:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-27 16:23 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-27 23:23 ` Joshua Kinard [this message]
2012-03-27 23:59 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-27 23:18 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-27 23:30 ` vivo75
2012-03-28 17:44 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-28 21:15 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-28 21:46 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-28 22:13 ` Roy Bamford
2012-04-10 20:03 ` William Hubbs
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