Update the documentation a bit for current status

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
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--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 Right now, I'm doing most of my testing using a qemu/kvm guest and
-generating the initramfs on another box.  I then can boot the guest
+generating the initramfs on another box but the support is all present
+to build for the "running" machine.  For the former, you can boot the guest
 using qemu's -kernel and -initrd options.  Currently supported rootfs
 types are regular partitions, root-on-lvm and root-on-lvm-on-encrypted-pv.
 
-generate.sh exists and will build an image.  Right now, it depends on
-some existing pieces of the Fedora initrd infrastructure, but moving
-those out is a priority now that the basic functionality has been
-proven.
+dracut exists and will build an image.  It is command-line equivalent
+to most mkinitrd implementations and should be pretty straight-forward
+to use.  
+
+To use, just run dracut with an output file name and, optionally, a
+kernel version (it defaults to using the current).   The appropriate
+modules will be copied over and things should be good to go.  If you'd
+like to customize the list of modules copied in, edit /etc/dracut.conf
+and set
+  modules="foo bar baz"
 
-To use, just run generate.sh with an output file for the initrd.  It
-will copy over some binaries as well as the appropriate shared library
-dependencies.  If you are doing a rootfs type that requires modules
-(on Fedora, this is just encrypted root now), you'll want to have the
-modules tree to copy in in a modules/ sub directory.  
 
 Requirements:
 * udev

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index e789a39e68099c193c11d7cf05590dd6f17a4dff..a8b6e8a12f5dd6a1ad4fb1cadfd837e0063d0965 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Current TODO list, broken into things which are relevant for the
-initramfs itself (/init et al) vs the generator
+initramfs itself (/init et al) vs the generator.  A lot of things
+are/should be marked with "FIXME" in the code
 
 INITRAMFS TODO
 --------------
@@ -24,29 +25,16 @@ can see this being a point of contention for other distros
 * root= parsing should be done with udev creating /dev/root symlink
 for us appropriately
 * Support thaw (resume from hibernate)
-* Currently requires the drop-nash branch of plymouth; get merged into
-master and released
 * Proving some support with a simple network based root would be good
   * Do we just call dhclient, etc or try to get NetworkManager going?
 * Would be nice not to have to kill and restart udev across switchroot 
 * mdraid
 * dmraid
 * multipath
-* SELinux policy either needs to be loaded from the initramfs or /init
-on the rootfs
-
+* Should SELinux policy be done in the initramfs or from the real rootfs?
 
 
 GENERATOR TODO
 --------------
-* Needs to be written to look at the current kernel and get the
-modules so it can be used on a running system.
-* Move the needed pieces of Fedora mkinitrd's initrd-functions into
-this tree.  This should mainly be around shlib resolution/copying at
-present
-* We should just grab appropriate modules rather than all of them.
-  * Should default to basically all storage drivers, possibly allow to
-  specify less
-  * Maybe use class based specifiers (=ata, =net, etc) that we do
-  today with Fedora mkinitrd
-* Certainly more as this is a huge hack right now
+* Default module specificatoin could use some work
+* udev rule copying, as mentioned above, is a bit too hard-coded