[klibc] initrd / initramfs future

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Thu Sep 16 07:44:32 PDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Wed, Sep 15, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > OK... now I'm confused.  Your paragraphs 2 and 3 seem to directly 
> > contradict each other.  Are you saying it should or should not be part 
> > of the kernel tarball?
> 
> Distros have to use the same stuff, and installing the kernel-sources
> just to get the initramfs image done isnt the brightest idea. Thats the
> reason why having an external project 'which does it all' is a better
> choice.
We can just make it easy to create a .tar.gz of relevant files from the
kernel. Think "make klibctgz-pkg"

	Sam



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