geninitrd 8385 patches and comments

[Adam Gołębiowski]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:11:06PM +0200, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> 2. the initrd (initramfs in fact) was unable to mount my root device,
>    which was an LVM volume.
> 
> I made two patches (attached) to address the second problem:
> 
> 1. geninitrd-rootdev.patch
> 
> 2. geninitrd-lvm_initramfs.patch

They worked for me, +1 from me for applying them, and since noone made
any objection so far, please apply. 

> - Do we still need non-initramfs initrd images? Dropping the legacy
>   would make things much simpler: writtable filesystem (no need for
>   temporary tmpfs mounts), the image could be generated with no
>   mknode/mount/chown privileges. Functionality of the initramfs image
>   could be easily extended by appending other cpio archives to it.

What about initramfs support on ppc?

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