Adam J. Richter writes:
> The initial ramdisk is not a partitioned device, and it is
> already read into memory by lilo. The program for reading the
> partition table from /dev/hda would be on the initial ramdisk.
> The same is true for root on floppy.
IMHO that is a rather sick way of doing it. By doing such a change:
1. you immediately force everyone to use an initial ramdisk,
which requires the ramdisk code (which increases the kernel size
by about 16KB), plus the extra effort to get the initial
ramdisk into memory.
Not everyone uses or wants to use initial ramdisks.
2. you reduce the kernel size by around 6-14KB by removing the
partition code.
I believe that your original argument for doing the change was to
decrease the size of the running kernel, and increase the loading
time by a couple of milliseconds? (please correct if this is wrong).
What has actually happened is that you have increased the loading time
by considerably more than a couple of milliseconds due to having to load
an initial ramdisk, and you have increased the size of the running kernel
by 2KB, or half a page.
I don't see that there is any gain here, sorry.
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