initrd in embedded systems

Kristof Provost kristof at sigsegv.be
Wed Sep 7 07:28:03 EDT 2016


On 7 Sep 2016, at 12:42, Madhu K wrote:
> I have one doubt, does all embedded system with Linux as operating system
> have initrd?
>

It depends, but many of them do not. (In fact, I’ve not seen any that do
use an initrd, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.)

As the hardware is known the required drivers are built in to the kernel
directly.

Regards,
Kristof



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