Re: [Bug 1490115] [NEW] build a fully generic initrd.img without modules

2015-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 08:30:13AM -, Oliver Grawert wrote: > to not duplicate the modules we should instead ship a "modules.img" file > in /boot/$bootloader/a|b/ that the initrd can loop mount on startup. The modules that are shipped in the initramfs are, by definition, those modules that ma

[Bug 1490115] [NEW] build a fully generic initrd.img without modules

2015-08-29 Thread Oliver Grawert
Public bug reported: currently our initrd.img on snappy contains modules and is not very generic, this makes porting and maintaining the device tarball harder than it should be, adds massively to the size of the initrd (which the bootloader needs to load into ram during boot, requiring more ram an