Re: modules item #14 revisited

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Dec 7,  8:55pm, abs%absd.org@localhost (David Brownlee) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: modules item #14 revisited

| Very much like this - would assume that modules.tgz goes away?

This is a good question. The problem is that if every kernel in a
distribution includes its own copy of modules, we'll end up bloating
the distribution a lot. For example on amd64 we distribute 4 kernels:

kern-GENERIC.tgz
kern-GENERIC_KASLR.tgz
kern-XEN3_DOM0.tgz      
kern-XEN3_DOMU.tgz      

Does each one gets a copy of the "appropriate" (since XEN needs different
modules)? Or do we have a modules.tgz and a modules.xen3.tgz to be unpacked
together with the kernel? And how is the unpacking done?

| Could logical extensions to this be:
| a) Allow including a miniroot as a separate file

I have not thought about that, but it should be doable.

| b) Use ustarfs to allow handling this layout of kernel, modules and/or
| miniroot as a (optionally compressed) tar file

Yes, I was thinking about booting from ustarfs... It will need more code
in boot...

christos