Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Seeing all the trouble some people have taken to make their systems > work with mdev just to avoid having to use an initramfs, I really > wonder how much effort it would have taken the simple task of learning > one step more when updating kernels and switch to use an initramfs.
I think udev, systemd, and initramfs are orthogonal concepts. FWIW I've built more or less deeply embedded Linux systems with Gentoo and without, for years. I stopped using init scripts long before I started using Gentoo in 2004. systemd is in most regards a significant improvement over everything that was previously available. The few regards where it isn't are outweighed fairly easily by the value of same process management both on desktop Linux and embedded Linux. On deeply embedded systems with say 2 or 4 Mbyte flash I might choose something other than systemd however. As was pointed out, such a system may also not need to be very dynamic, so losing udev is not neccessarily a problem. If they do need to be dynamic, then will have to make some room for udev as well. Anyone who tries to argue that initramfs would be good for me to have on my systems should brace themselves for a mouthful of foul swedish language coming their way! ;) //Peter
