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62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel


Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel

Askar Safin was the Linux developer who a few weeks back brought up going ahead with the initrd removal and volunteered to submit such patches. On Friday evening those patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for proposing the initrd removal. "This patchset removes classic initrd (initial RAM disk) support, which was deprecated in 2020.

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