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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for 64-bit x86 ?
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps, but this also violates the principle that the kernel should just 
>>> *work* with sensible defaults.  I don't use an initrd, or an initramfs, 
>>> and have no intention of ever doing so.
>>
>> 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.

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)

	Ingo