Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 18:27:26 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
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> El Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:45:34 +0000
> Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> escribió:
>> = Features/DracutHostOnly =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DracutHostOnly
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>> Feature owner(s): Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
>>
>> Only create "host-only" initramfs images. A generic fallback image
>> should be installed by anaconda on installation/update and never ever
>> be removed.
>>
>> == Detailed description ==
>> Current initramfs images contain most of the kernel drivers to boot
>> from any hardware. This results in a very big initramfs, which takes
>> a long time to load on system start and a long time to create on
>> kernel updates. Switching to host-only will improve the situation. To
>> cope with hardware change, a boot entry "Rescue System" should be
>> installed with a full fledged initramfs also containing debug tools.
>> This boot entry can then be used to recover from hardware changes and
>> also from unforseen software failure after updates.
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> as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this should
> be a non-starter.

Thinking about this some more ... that does not make sense. A
initramfs does not link anything but simply put stuff into an image
similar to a tarball or even an ISO image.

So what exactly are the objections raised by legal?


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