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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:02:16 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Torrey Hoffman <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>
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Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:25:37PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
 
> One of the neat things about moving a lot of this formerly in-kernel
> boot stuff to userspace is that it will be easier to do interesting
> customization of the boot process, without having to hack the kernel.

Right.  But in doing this we also don't want to bloat the very small
programs/functionality we currently hack directly in

> I'm sure that this will be used in lots of innovative ways that people
> haven't even thought of yet.  

Yes, but how many of these require a 'klibc' ?  One of the other tiny
libcs is probably a better bet for any sort of 'large' project.  IMHO,
the klibc stuff should be just big enough to support the 'normal' cases,
ie stuff we do now and related.

> So, I guess what I'd like to see with the initramfs build system is a 
> easy way to build little apps like sfdisk and mkreiserfs against the 
> libc it (normally) uses and add them to the ramdisk.

Well, occording to the spec file hpa posted, it's just a cpio(1)
archive, so anything is possible.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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