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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
Le 01/01/2016 20:05, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
> richard lucassen <mailinglists@???> writes:
>> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>>>> Plus the drivers for various hardware like cciss devices, just
>>>> having ext4 built in is not enough. Wouldn't it be better to have a
>>>> simple initramfs with just the apropiate modules for the hardware?
>>> No computer I've either been using privately or professionally ever
>>> suddenly grew a new motherboard (simplification) overnight. Hence,
>>> they're all running kernels with the drivers and filesystems necessary
>>> for booting compiled in.
>> Of course, but I presume that we're talking about a kernel that will be
>> distributed by Devuan. If you build in hardware drivers for all
>> different types of hardware, the kernel gets somewhat big IMHO ;-)
> Some signals crossed here. I was trying to explain that "a distribution"
> has to use initrd/ initramfs because of problems specific to
> distribution kernels but that individual users don't have to use this
> mechanism if they don't want to because they can just compile a kernel
> which will work with their hardware (which is usually rather static).
>


     There might be an optional kernel featuring sata, scsi and a few 
popular filesystems. That would match the vast majority of cases.