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

Fri Dec 2 22:17:05 CET 2011

On 02.12.2011 15:57, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Patch attached. I guess this would remain as a Mageia specific patch as
+the wanted behavior is dependant on how the distribution handles driver
+switching etc...
+
+Shall I apply it?
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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