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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Sat Dec 3 12:29:58 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 02/12/11 21:17 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 02.12.2011 15:57, Anssi Hannula wrote:
</I>>><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.
</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
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