It is possible to change the initramfs used for kexec relatively easy, see kdump.init.d in the source. We could therefore consider building an initrd with MODULES=dep, for my machine here that drops the initrd by 10MB compressed and nearly 30MB uncompressed:
It is possible to change the initramfs used for kexec relatively easy, see kdump.init.d in the source. We could therefore consider building an initrd with MODULES=dep, for my machine here that drops the initrd by 10MB compressed and nearly 30MB uncompressed:
$ zcat /boot/initrd. img-2.6. 39-3-generic | wc -c img-2.6. 39-3-generic. dep | wc -c
36718592
$ zcat /boot/initrd.
7216640