Hello Thomas ! Sorry for my late reply... On Thu, 17/05/2016 at 12.12 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2016 02:30:41 PM Guido Trentalancia wrote: > > Hello Harald ! > > > > On Thu, 21/04/2016 Guido Trentalancia wrote: > > > > Compile and install locale definitions using localedef from GNU > > > > libc or, > > > > if locale definitions cannot be compiled but are available on > > > > the > > > > system > > > > as split definitions, just install them. > > > > > > > > The resulting locale definitions archive contains at most two > > > > different > > > > locale definitions, therefore its size is relatively small. > > > > > > > > Add support for localised messages from core packages > > > > (LC_MESSAGES). > > > > > > Do we really need this in the initramfs? > > > > It's a killer functionality !!! And it requires very little extra > > disk > > space compared to the actual initramfs. You know, we tend not to > > use > > the floppy disk anymore nowadays !... > > Linux runs on platforms you cannot lift, but it may run on platforms > you > can hardly see. Dracut is meant to be platform independent and may > also > run on platforms which memory/storage devices are very expensive or > just > very small. > > In general initramfs is precious. I agree with you. > Without having a closer look at the whole patchset.., but if this > gets > in, it should certainly be configurable or a separate module > (10i18n_full?) if this is possible. It is already configurable (and enabled by default, as we cannot predict the user knows the English language). Please use --msg-localisation and --no-msg-localisation to enable and disable the feature. > How much would the initrd about grow in a real number? The difference between a 4.5.4 kernel initramfs fully localised with the Italian language and a 4.5.4 kernel initramfs without full localisation support (English-only messages) is 810 kilobytes. > > Thomas > Best regards, Guido -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
