Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'll note here that on my system Ubuntu's initramfs is 7.5M.  My largest 
> LFS kernel is 3.9M.

Ouch.

The initramfs images that I have built are actually 9 megs (28 megs
uncompressed).  But that's because I include all kernel modules and all
firmware on the host, which pulls in both nvidia.ko (at 16 megs) and
libc (it doesn't use klibc because I want it to share as much as
possible with the host; shared code pages in memory exist for a reason
-- but that's 8 megs) and the firmware for this TV tuner card (at about
a meg).

The nvidia module and tuner card firmware are not actually required,
except as a test that the full udev module and firmware loading setup is
working.

> My overall impression is that BLFS is the right place for this with 
> links to the appropriate packages that need to be built.  Forward 
> references in Chapter 2 and 8.3 (Kernel) and 8.4 (Grub Config) would be 
> appropriate.

Yeah, that seems fine.  Similar to how we handle editors and alternate
root filesystems.

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