29 Aug
2011
29 Aug
'11
6:16 p.m.
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 20:09 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
That would suck, suppose this radeon thing is the only console you've got (ppc64/sparc64 don't have text mode iirc) and userspace doesn't come up?
Same is true for NICs and netconsole of course. Not being able to stick blobs into the kernel image would so suck.
NICs and nfsroot, I suppose can you use an initrd over tftp as well, but really, what's the point of an in-kernel nfsroot if you need initrd crap.