On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 09:05:26AM -0500, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> Might be worth trying to get interest upstream for functionality to "merge"
> binary modules with an already compiled kernel as a single file.
> Presumably, it wouldn't be *that* difficult for the kernel to look for
> modules at the end of its image and load them early.
>
> Not sure what the kernel maintainers would say to this idea, but it seems
> like it would be more robust than initrd/initramfs.
>

But what's the point of having modules "at the end of [the kernel]
image"? You can just compile-in them.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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