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From: Douglas J Hunley <doug.hunley@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:58:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALxYTP75MP0vHdbtd=ybBT-+0-vSt8+WXkkf+P4ARtGZiZ639g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52234FA0.8060403@libertytrek.org>

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On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>wrote:

> Is there any reason that the creation, use and maintenance of the
> initramfs couldn't be as simple as a checkbox in the kernel config, so that
> running 'make' after the kernel was configured would automatically build
> it? Then, all I'd have to do is move it into /boot along with the new
> kernel (just like I do now), with *nothing* else required, and the kernel
> would call it, and things would just work (as long as it was there and I
> didn't forget to copy it to /boot).


This exists. You can built initramfs right into the kernel. I've been doing
it here for quite some time. You just tell the kernel either:
* where to find a filespec so it knows what to include in the initramfs
* what directory contains everything you want in the initramfs

and then the kernel builds is and attaches it to itself during 'make'

It's actually pretty trivial


-- 
Douglas J Hunley (doug.hunley@gmail.com)
Twitter: @hunleyd                                               Web:
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-03 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]     ` <lMFPA-5c8-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <lMLLl-4gZ-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <lMRxo-37c-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <lMRH5-3hw-45@gated-at.bofh.it>
2013-08-31 12:08             ` Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo Gregory Shearman
2013-08-31 12:19               ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-01  0:13                 ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-01  0:36                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-01  3:55                     ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-01  4:31                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-01 14:30                         ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-01 14:47                           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 14:58                           ` Douglas J Hunley [this message]
2013-09-04  1:20                             ` Dale
2013-09-01  5:41                       ` Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS " Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-02  4:44                         ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-01 14:11                       ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-02  4:09                         ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-01  0:51                   ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-01  3:43                     ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-01  7:49                   ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-01 21:19                     ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-02  4:43                       ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-02  8:47                         ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-04  2:54                           ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 11:25                             ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-04 12:36                               ` Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS " Nicolas Sebrecht
2013-09-04  6:49                           ` Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] " Marc Stürmer
2013-09-05 10:04                             ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-04 11:53                           ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-09-04 12:01                             ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27  2:04 Thomas Mueller
2013-08-27  6:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27  7:53   ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27  8:37     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27  9:08       ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27  9:26         ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27 20:46           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 20:36         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 21:06           ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-28 10:58             ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-28 11:12               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-30 14:29                 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-30 14:34                   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-28 11:24               ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27  7:41 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27 10:33 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-27 12:25   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-27 12:37     ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-27 13:56       ` Neil Bothwick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-13  9:08 Alessio Ababilov
2013-08-13 11:38 ` 东方巽雷
2013-08-13 14:05   ` Alessio Ababilov
2013-08-13 15:24     ` pk
2013-08-13 15:44     ` the
2013-08-13 18:08       ` Alessio Ababilov
2013-08-16  4:16         ` Daniel Campbell
2013-08-16 12:29           ` Alessio Ababilov
2013-08-16 12:35             ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-16 14:05               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-16 13:57             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-08-17 11:49               ` Dan Johansson
2013-08-17 19:18                 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2013-08-18  6:40                 ` Stroller
2013-08-18  9:16                   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-18 19:38                     ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-25 22:02                       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-26  6:10                         ` Pandu Poluan
2013-08-26  6:23                           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 11:36                             ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-27 11:42                               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 12:05                                 ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-27 13:03                                   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 13:11                                     ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-27 13:44                                       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 15:55                                     ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-27 16:02                                       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-28 10:28                                     ` Pandu Poluan
2013-08-27 19:24                                 ` joost
2013-08-27 19:50                                   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27 20:50                                     ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-26  7:06                         ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26  8:45                           ` Mick
2013-08-26  9:56                             ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26 10:17                               ` Pandu Poluan
2013-08-26 12:06                             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-08-26 14:38                               ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26 14:36                                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-26 14:45                                 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-08-26 13:16                         ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-26 14:11                           ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26 16:36                             ` Tanstaafl
2013-08-26 17:08                               ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26 17:30                                 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-26 21:05                                   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26 21:37                                     ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-26 21:53                                       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-08-26 22:25                                         ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27  6:18                                       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27  7:59                                         ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-27  8:26                                           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-27  8:58                                             ` Joerg Schilling
2013-08-17  6:14             ` Daniel Campbell
2013-08-17  8:36               ` the.guard
2013-08-17 19:22                 ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas Eder
2013-08-17 19:26                   ` Alon Bar-Lev
2013-08-18  3:42                     ` Daniel Campbell
2013-08-18  8:53                       ` Alessio Ababilov
2013-08-18  9:44                         ` Daniel Campbell
2013-08-18 14:16                           ` pk
2013-08-19  9:21                             ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2013-08-19  9:27                               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-08-19 14:03                               ` pk
2013-08-13 18:32 ` Canek Peláez Valdés

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