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Should we move wholesale to dracut? +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> It's very easy to hack on, and Harald Hoyer has been very helpful and +</I>>>><i> has merged some of the patches we carried locally (which I mostly copied +</I>>>><i> from Mandriva). Not sure why they were not upstreamed before. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> There are still a couple patches we carry locally (soon to be less when +</I>>>><i> Harald pushes his git repo and I rebase), but they are pretty trivial, +</I>>>><i> understandable and easily maintainable (mostly they will be stylistic +</I>>>><i> tweaks and naming variations - i.e. very minor). +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Modprobe rules are included even in the initrd so tweaks there follow +</I>>>><i> through. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I'm not necessarily against keeping mkinitrd, but I think we should take +</I>>>><i> the time from now until the beta phase to obsolte mkinitrd and force +</I>>>><i> everyone to use dracut in order to see if there are any issues and then +</I>>>><i> make the call before next beta or rc. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +1 +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> One thing that doesn't work with dracut yet is that it only includes the +</I>>><i> KMS drivers into initramfs if they are loaded at the time of initramfs +</I>>><i> creation, causing unoptimal boot screen when a) initramfs created by the +</I>>><i> installer (I guess), and when b) user has switched a driver non-kms -> kms. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> This can probably be solved by some patching of +</I>>><i> modules.d/50plymouth/module-setup.sh, but I haven't looked at it closely +</I>>><i> yet. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Patch attached. I guess this would remain as a Mageia specific patch as +</I>><i> the wanted behavior is dependant on how the distribution handles driver +</I>><i> switching etc... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Shall I apply it? +</I> +I just updated dracut with another patch, so I included this one too. + +I know there is ongoing discussions about firmwares etc. but I think +this patch still stands alone. + +I'll discuss with Harald if there is a way to upstream this in a semi +generic way. If not, we just carry it as a local patch. + +Thanks + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010475.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut. +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010149.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut. +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10130">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10130">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10130">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10130">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |