On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:34:51 +0200 Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure how many embedded people actually know how to build an > > initrd for a custom board. > > > > All the ones I have on my desk right now use initrd. ;) Ok, I guess we'll just have to look into that, then. > I had a chat with David Woodhouse and Segher Boessenkool and I think we have > another approach. Basically, we move the waiting which would normally go into > the initrd and move it into the kernel. So you get something like: > > "Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p1..." > > The only problem here is if the device never shows up, but if that was the > case > you would previously get a panic, so it should not be any worse. Indeed, it will even be pretty obvious what happened, and the user can probably just insert a card at that point to get a working system. > Does that sound like something that would work for you? From my point of view > it's a much cleaner solution that has the benefit of not being tied into a > certain subsystem (i.e. this would "fix" usb aswell). Yes, that would definitely work. Haavard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
