27-08-2007, Robert P. J. Day: > p.s. just to sum up, is it possible to build a working kernel without > initrd support? Yes, if you have valid `root=,init=' (or rdev(8), hope it still supported) bootloader setup. > without ramfs support? Sure! You've read help on it. > without initramfs support? Yes. Because `initramfs' here is not a filesystem per se, it's a cpio archive of some kind of minimal (currently very silly, see scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh), file system content. If you will read all that initramfs early boot documentation, you will see, that there's always a root file system, without even any particular file system driver. This option just fills it. > with omitting any combination of the above? Base on hand waving above -- yes :) > and do the Kconfig entries for those features actually make sense in > terms of dependencies? Don't know, who cares? -- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
