README

   1 This is the simple skeleton of a new initramfs infrastructure.
   2 Information about our goals and aims can be found at
   3 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Initrdrewrite
   4
   5 Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as
   6 possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible.  The initramfs has
   7 (basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that
   8 we can transition to the real rootfs.  This is all driven off of
   9 device availability.  Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do
  10 various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and
  11 then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on.
  12 This helps to keep the time required in the initramfs as little as
  13 possible so that things like a 5 second boot aren't made impossible as
  14 a result of the very existence of an initramfs.  It's likely that
  15 we'll grow some hooks for running arbitrary commands in the flow of
  16 the script, but it's worth trying to resist the urge as much as we can
  17 as hooks are guaranteed to be the path to slow-down.
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  19 Also, there is an attempt to keep things as distribution-agnostic as
  20 possible.  Every distribution has their own tool here and it's not
  21 something which is really interesting to have separate across them.
  22 So contributions to help decrease the distro-dependencies are welcome.
  23
  24 The git tree can be found at
  25 git://fedorapeople.org/~katzj/new-initrd.git for now.  See the TODO
  26 file for things which still need to be done and HACKING for some
  27 instructions on how to get started
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  30 Licensed under the GPLv2
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  32 Copyright 2008, Red Hat, Inc. -- Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>