On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:57:05 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote: > Maybe a better solution is to first build an initramfs with > everything, plus the kitchen sink. Boot it, and then look at what has > been loaded in order to get the rootfs mounted. Then update the > initramfs with just what is needed? That should be pretty generic, > with throw out networking ig NFS root is not used, just load JFFS2 and > a NAND driver if it was used for the rootfs, etc. Sorry for a dumb question from the audience but how does this work for PCI devices? We don't worry about what drivers may be needed because there's no "fallback / generic" driver? For MDIO are the ID registers too complicated to expose to user space and let it match the drivers using modinfo (avoiding the need to boot a kitchen sink kernel)?
