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

Sat Dec 3 12:29:58 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 02/12/11 21:17 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+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
+
+
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