[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

Fri Dec 2 14:57:34 CET 2011

On 02.12.2011 13:28, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> Just a suggestion! Should we move wholesale to dracut?
+> 
+> It's very easy to hack on, and Harald Hoyer has been very helpful and
+> has merged some of the patches we carried locally (which I mostly copied
+> from Mandriva). Not sure why they were not upstreamed before.
+> 
+> There are still a couple patches we carry locally (soon to be less when
+> Harald pushes his git repo and I rebase), but they are pretty trivial,
+> understandable and easily maintainable (mostly they will be stylistic
+> tweaks and naming variations - i.e. very minor).
+> 
+> Modprobe rules are included even in the initrd so tweaks there follow
+> through.
+> 
+> I'm not necessarily against keeping mkinitrd, but I think we should take
+> the time from now until the beta phase to obsolte mkinitrd and force
+> everyone to use dracut in order to see if there are any issues and then
+> make the call before next beta or rc.
+
++1
+
+One thing that doesn't work with dracut yet is that it only includes the
+KMS drivers into initramfs if they are loaded at the time of initramfs
+creation, causing unoptimal boot screen when a) initramfs created by the
+installer (I guess), and when b) user has switched a driver non-kms -> kms.
+
+This can probably be solved by some patching of
+modules.d/50plymouth/module-setup.sh, but I haven't looked at it closely
+yet.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+