Hello everyone,

All important modules are ported. Some need a few tweaks but generally
Dracut provides the same functionality Genkernel initramfs generator
does. And good news for some of you: PLYMOUTH WORKS (thanks to
Martin Benz who created the ebuild). Tested it with my fork of
Dracut and worked. :-)

Here's summary:

Module 	Status

01fips 			FIXED¹
50plymouth 		OK (>=sys-boot/plymouth-0.8.3²)
90crypt 		ENHANCED³
95dasd 			SKIPPED⁴
95dasd_mod 		SKIPPED⁴
95debug 		ENHANCED
95fcoe 			NO TOOLS
95iscsi 		OK
95nbd 			OK
95nfs 			OK
95resume 		OK⁵
95zfcp 			SKIPPED⁴
95znet 			SKIPPED⁴
98selinux 		OK

   1. Fixed, should be OK, but not tested because setting it up is PITA
   and not especially important.
   2. Not yet in Portage tree but ebuild from Martin Benz (see #274065)
   works without a problem with my fork of Dracut. Martin reported tiny
   problem with dracut-006. I've posted workaround as dracut-006-r1.
   Reported problem is already properly solved in official Dracut's git
   repo.
   3. Added support for keys on external devices but it's not fully
   finished. Needs some more work, but it's not so important for now
   (since it worksforme ;-)).
   4. Do it later, maybe. Have to set up special environment for them,
   e.g. dasd is for S/390, so some emulator…
   5. Tested with µswsusp only.

Moreover I've refectored the ebuild, added new USE flags and updated
dependencies. There's just kernel config check left. Ebuild works with
my repo. When new version of Dracut will be released (with things I've
submitted) just small details will have to be changed.

Now I'm switching to Genkernel integration.

References:

    * activity at LKML: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/
    * my repo: http://github.com/aidecoe/dracut (branches gsoc2010 and
gentoo)
    * my blog: http://blog.aidecoe.name


Cheers,
Amadeusz Żołnowski

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