On 01/03/2016 11:06 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016, at 19:59, Christian Seiler wrote: >> 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?) > > No, but I've had to help a couple people that needed a microcode update > and couldn't make it work because they didn't use an initramfs.
Good to know. > Not all of them were Debian users, though. While I don't have plans on packaging that for anything other than Debian: Well, it's free software. :-) Regards, Christian
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