From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: kinit (was: sleep before boot panic)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:20:06 +0100
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Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Wednesday 09 January 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> >> Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would 
> >> have been done exclusively in userspace...
> > 
> > What's the status of kinit, btw?
> > 							Pavel
> 
> It's bitrotted a bit since it was first rejected.  It wouldn't take too 
> much work to bring it back up to speed, however.  klibc, and some of the 
> kinit components, are used for the initramfs in Debian.

Yes, and I like most of it. The only thing really missing for me 
is LVM support. Debian (?) did a evil hack to make it work.
Maybe one day this itches soo much, I'll even scratch it :-)

Then I'll be able to test kernels on a standard LVM installation again.

So please keep up the good work!


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser
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