On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org>wrote:
> Is there any reason that the creation, use and maintenance of the > initramfs couldn't be as simple as a checkbox in the kernel config, so that > running 'make' after the kernel was configured would automatically build > it? Then, all I'd have to do is move it into /boot along with the new > kernel (just like I do now), with *nothing* else required, and the kernel > would call it, and things would just work (as long as it was there and I > didn't forget to copy it to /boot). This exists. You can built initramfs right into the kernel. I've been doing it here for quite some time. You just tell the kernel either: * where to find a filespec so it knows what to include in the initramfs * what directory contains everything you want in the initramfs and then the kernel builds is and attaches it to itself during 'make' It's actually pretty trivial -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
