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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 03:03:45 +0100
From: Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I have one that loads a second kernel over the network using dhcp 
> to configure it's interface and tftp to fetch the image and boots
> that is only 20kb uncompressed....

Neat ;-) My goal is actually not only size, but also to have a relatively
normal build environment, e.g. my example is with shared newlib, regular
ash, and - unfortunately rather wasteful - glibc's ld.so.

But a tftp loader in 20kB is rather good. Now the next challenge is the
same thing with NFS. Then we can finally kill nfsroot ;-)

- Werner

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