An smaller and simple initrd

[josuedhg]

instead load systemd and all its stuffs clear could have a custom init process, just doing the needed things to mount root

[itsManjeet]

I guess too late but is this enhancement still required ?
I read the kernel configurations of clear linux and i guess most of the required modules are already inbuilt inside the kernel and their is no need of including any other kernel modules or udev components inside the initrd, (except while booting into live system from iso, where isofs, overlay sr_mod etc. modules might need to be included)
and i guess udev (or systemd-udevd) is not required in this cause too. as no extra modules are added in initrd
I had written a tool that generate a minimal initrd this one.
this might not directly work on clear linux (surely not, i have done some patches to make it work). It generates cpio compressed initrd image of size 4.8 MiB, (can use busybox or toybox to decrease size).

[fenrus75]

we default to no initrd basically so that is small by design ;)

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On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 4:26 AM Manjeet Saini ***@***.***> wrote: I guess too late but is this enhancement still required ? I read the kernel configurations of clear linux and i guess most of the required modules are already inbuilt inside the kernel and their is no need of including any other kernel modules or udev components inside the initrd, (except while booting into live system from iso, where isofs, overlay sr_mod etc. modules might need to be included) and i guess udev (or systemd-udevd) is not required in this cause too. as no extra modules are added in initrd I had written a tool that generate a minimal initrd this one <https://github.com/rlxos/rlx-init>. this might not directly work on clear linux (surely not, i have done some patches to make it work). It generates cpio compressed initrd image of size 4.8 MiB, (can use busybox or toybox to decrease size). — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAJ54FLVFEJ6IEA2RBJB5J3SO7NYFANCNFSM4GIGTH5Q> .

[itsManjeet]

XD ohk, and ya kernel is on efi partition, so no issue with encrypted partitions.
great move !