* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

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> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Nope.  It runs inside an initramfs, of course; that initramfs is linked 
>>>>> into the kernel binary.
>>>> would be nice to have a single-image variant for all of this. having the 
>>>> separate initrd was always trouble - and it's pointless as well. (we 
>>>> rarely update the initrd without updating the vmlinuz as well)
>>> We do.  Am I missing something?
>>
>> do we have a single-image way of getting both the kernel image and the 
>> initram set up at once? What i know of is a two-image approach: vmlinuz 
>> and initrd.
>>
>
> Yes, we do.  The initramfs can be linked into the kernel image.  The 
> unified klibc build tree does that by default.

argh. Guess i misread your answer:

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>>>>>> nor do i - i was under the impression that klibc was able to work 
>>>>>> out of a bzImage too? Am i wrong?
>>>>> Nope.  It runs inside an initramfs, of course; that initramfs is linked 
>>>>> into the kernel binary.

i took that "Nope" as referring to my impression - but you in fact meant 
that i am not wrong? :-) So nothing to see here. single-bzImage initrd 
was and is possible, so we could in fact move chunks of system-related 
userland (such as irqbalanced) into the kernel proper?

	Ingo
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