Le 17/11/2018 à 20:51, Rick Moen a écrit :
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):
If you want to boot directly to the disk, then don't use a distro.
I very much do not concur.
Since 1992 -- with a gap when I was lazy for a long time -- I've found
it useful to construct bespoke kernels for my systems that compile
inline the essential drivers and build as modules drivers that might
or might not be needed later at runtime. But nothing about that local
policy contraindicates my using a distribution, and never has. I love
using Linux distributions, leveraging the work of talented package
maintainers so as not to need to revert to the bad old days. Why would
I not? The advantages to me are considerable, among those a smaller and
faster kernel image, a smaller attack surface, less to go wrong, and
eliminating the need for an initramfs.
Your dichotomy makes no sense to me.
This isn't anything new. Initramfs is the easy way for distros to
provide all possible device drivers as module.
But some of us don't want all possible dervice drivers as modules.
Otherwise, your kernel should be compiled according to the hardware
detected by the installer.
Sounds good to me.
Seems we agree. What I mean is that you must carefully tweak your
OS so that the package manager does not undo your settings. It also
means that you cannot use kernel updates from the distro because you
just don't use the kernel of the distro. You only partly use the distro
and do a lot by hand. I do this when necessary (and with a custom
initramfs), but certainly not all the time - too much work.
Didier
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