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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2024-01-19 14:21:24 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2024-01-24 17:54:38 +0100
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Remove a few references to dracut
Let's remove some explicit references to dracut as we prefer initrds built with mkosi these days.
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-rw-r--r--docs/INITRD_INTERFACE.md9
-rw-r--r--docs/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY.md2
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diff --git a/docs/INITRD_INTERFACE.md b/docs/INITRD_INTERFACE.md
index de91ba7395..4e856f8917 100644
--- a/docs/INITRD_INTERFACE.md
+++ b/docs/INITRD_INTERFACE.md
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ initrd and initrd-less boots. If an initrd is used, it is a good idea to pass a
few bits of runtime information from the initrd to systemd in order to avoid
duplicate work and to provide performance data to the administrator. In this
page we attempt to roughly describe the interfaces that exist between the
-initrd and systemd. These interfaces are currently used by dracut and the
-ArchLinux initrds.
+initrd and systemd. These interfaces are currently used by
+[mkosi](https://github.com/systemd/mkosi)-generated initrds, dracut and the
+Arch Linux initrds.
* The initrd should mount `/run/` as a tmpfs and pass it pre-mounted when
jumping into the main system when executing systemd. The mount options should
@@ -49,10 +50,6 @@ implemented as an actual ramdisk, ramfs or tmpfs. We recommend using _initrd_
in this sense as a term that is unrelated to the actual backing technologies
used.
-Oh, and one last question before closing: instead of implementing these
-features in your own distro's initrd, may I suggest just using Dracut instead?
-It's all already implemented there!
-
## Using systemd inside an initrd
It is also possible and recommended to implement the initrd itself based on
diff --git a/docs/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY.md b/docs/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY.md
index 82aefc742d..2854857d2b 100644
--- a/docs/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY.md
+++ b/docs/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY.md
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ And now, here's the list of (hopefully) all APIs that we have introduced with sy
| [hostnamed](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedesktop.hostname1.html) | D-Bus | yes | yes | GNOME | yes | [Ubuntu](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-service), [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/openrc-settingsd.xml), [BSD](http://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systembsd.git;a=summary) | partially |
| [localed](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedesktop.locale1.html) | D-Bus | yes | yes | GNOME | yes | [Ubuntu](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-service), [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/openrc-settingsd.xml), [BSD](http://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systembsd.git;a=summary) | partially |
| [timedated](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedesktop.timedate1.html) | D-Bus | yes | yes | GNOME | yes | [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/openrc-settingsd.xml), [BSD](http://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systembsd.git;a=summary) | partially |
-| [initrd interface](INITRD_INTERFACE.md) | Environment, flag files | yes | yes | dracut, ArchLinux | yes | ArchLinux | no |
+| [initrd interface](INITRD_INTERFACE.md) | Environment, flag files | yes | yes | mkosi, dracut, ArchLinux | yes | ArchLinux | no |
| [Container interface](CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md) | Environment, Mounts | yes | yes | libvirt/LXC | yes | - | no |
| [Boot Loader interface](BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE.md) | EFI variables | yes | yes | gummiboot | yes | - | no |
| [Service bus API](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedesktop.systemd1.html) | D-Bus | yes | yes | system-config-services | no | - | no |