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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:

>>> 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.

	Ingo