Re: Linux-2.1.92 - Feature Freeze

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
4 Apr 1998 04:14:19 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980403225030.22074A-100000@nightshade.ml.org>
By author: <linker@nightshade.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> People need enough PnP to be able to boot from a PNP ISA device without
> relying on initrd tricks. (Yes, ISA PNP is both an abomination and an
> oxy moron)
>

Why is that? initrd is an excellent and very general mechanism.
There seems to be a lot of resistance to using it; unfortunately I
feel too many Linux people want to take the path of least resistance
which far too often ends up putting too many things in the kernel.
This is a problem.

-hpa

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