On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:42:52PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El sáb, 04-10-2003 a las 16:13, Sven Luther escribió: > [...] > > > > > > > I have a question about those kernels. Are they something like x86 ones > > > where you have all possible drivers as modules (ide, for example) and > > > then an initrd image so you will have a really small kernel with lots of > > > modules? > > > > Nope, they are a small kernel and modules which goes installed > > in their right place, like the output of the make-kpkg kernel-images > > mostly. I don't think what you like is possible, since there is a limit > > on the size of the initrd for powerpc (3.3M or something such i think), > > and anyway, i don't see much what you gain by it. > > The x86 initrd is less than 3.5Mb and it's compiled that way.
But powerpc executables are bigger, and i have around 8Mo of modules built. > I'm talking about a more modularized .config file so you can use > make-kpkg as always. > > With that setup you have a kernel that will only load what you need and > will let you boot from USB, FireWire, IDE or SCSI just like MacOSX > without add all those buses inside kernel. I still don't understand the need for an initrd ? Once the system is installed, you can just put the modules on the harddisk, and when installing, it is debian-installer who handle this ... Mmm, i think i see, you want the ide/scsi/firewire/usb/whatever stuff out of the kernel, so you can boot with those, even if they are needed to mount your system. Ok, this seems like a nice idea, i guess it could not be the same kernel as the one used for debian-installer though, as it uses the initrd for the root image. Anyway, we are too near the srge release for those kind of changes, but i will look into it when i get the time. Friendly, Sven Luther
