initramfs support

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> I'm a bit more interested in what types of setups the initramfs needs to
> support, though.  From the initial bug, it sounds like root-on-LVM2 and
> root-on-dmraid (and combinations of the two) require it.  It looks like
> hibernation also requires it (to fire up the hibernated image).  I don't
> know if any other setup does.

Hibernation requires this only if the bare bzImage doesn't see the device, 
or if persistent udev symlinks are used to locate the swap device. I.e.: a 
partition on a disk with non-modular driver should work without the initramfs.

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Alexander E. Patrakov