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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.</H1>
<B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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<I>Fri Dec 2 22:17:05 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 02.12.2011 15:57, Anssi Hannula wrote:
><i> On 02.12.2011 13:28, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>>><i> Hi,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Just a suggestion! 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.
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</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.
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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?
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Anssi Hannula
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