On 01/03/2016 10:53 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016, at 18:35, Christian Seiler wrote: >> My question would be: would those people here who have separate /usr >> and aren't using initrd be willing to put up with something like that? > > I don't know if they will, but the list of potential users for your hack > is a bit larger: > > As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot really support a > firmware-update/override "early initramfs" without a "boot" initramfs, > which is a really annoying limitation for anyone that doesn't want a > "boot" initramfs for whatever reason.
Oh, I didn't know that. I've always used initrds on my systems for the last - I don't know - 15 years or so. Anyway, if I hear from enough people who'd actually use my piece of code, I'll make a real project out of it and package it for Debian. (Do you count yourself as one of those?) Regards, Christian
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