Re: ramdisks and ramfs and initramfs -- what can i avoid?

["Oleg Verych: gmane reading" <!gmane?olecom.ENOMSG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
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