[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

[Anssi Hannula]

On 02.12.2011 15:57, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> On 02.12.2011 13:28, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just a suggestion! Should we move wholesale to dracut?
>>
>> It's very easy to hack on, and Harald Hoyer has been very helpful and
>> has merged some of the patches we carried locally (which I mostly copied
>> from Mandriva). Not sure why they were not upstreamed before.
>>
>> There are still a couple patches we carry locally (soon to be less when
>> Harald pushes his git repo and I rebase), but they are pretty trivial,
>> understandable and easily maintainable (mostly they will be stylistic
>> tweaks and naming variations - i.e. very minor).
>>
>> Modprobe rules are included even in the initrd so tweaks there follow
>> through.
>>
>> I'm not necessarily against keeping mkinitrd, but I think we should take
>> the time from now until the beta phase to obsolte mkinitrd and force
>> everyone to use dracut in order to see if there are any issues and then
>> make the call before next beta or rc.
> 
> +1
> 
> One thing that doesn't work with dracut yet is that it only includes the
> KMS drivers into initramfs if they are loaded at the time of initramfs
> creation, causing unoptimal boot screen when a) initramfs created by the
> installer (I guess), and when b) user has switched a driver non-kms -> kms.
> 
> This can probably be solved by some patching of
> modules.d/50plymouth/module-setup.sh, but I haven't looked at it closely
> yet.

Patch attached. I guess this would remain as a Mageia specific patch as
the wanted behavior is dependant on how the distribution handles driver
switching etc...

Shall I apply it?

-- 
Anssi Hannula
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