On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:05:18AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Matthew McClintock | 2010-07-20 23:42:57 [-0500]: > > >This patch series adds full support for booting with a flat device tree > >with either uImage or elf file formats. Kexec and Kdump should work, and > >you should also be able to use ramdisks or reuse your current ramdisk as well > > just had a brief look and will try to look deeper once I'm able to. One > thing I'm not sure is whether we want to introduce the --reuse-initrd > option. In my opinion it is just bloat. Yes I know the kernel reserves > the region where the initrd is loaded by the boot loader but I'm unsure > if we want to keep it that way. We are talking here about 10 MiB which > remain unused once the system finished booting. If you kexec you have to > specify the kernel, why not the initrd as well? I tend to agree with Sebastian on this one.
