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initramfs and where user space truly begins

initramfs and where user space truly begins

Posted Jul 13, 2006 15:51 UTC (Thu) by cventers (guest, #31465)
In reply to: initramfs and where user space truly begins by nix
Parent article: initramfs and where user space truly begins

Well, unless klibc implements things uClibc doesn't, why couldn't a user
using busybox and uClibc with initramfs not continue to use uClibc and
build the kinit stuff against it?

I agree that it's a tough call but I think it's an exciting, neat and
clean idea to move more of that boot policy out of the kernel. There's
nothing more irritating to me than watching the kernel panic because the
VFS can't mount root, and then having to juggle boot CDs to go in and fix
it. Having dash available right then to step in would be convenient :)


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initramfs and where user space truly begins

Posted Jul 13, 2006 16:27 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Indeed this seems ideal :) it could be done easily by simply allowing the kinit toolchain to differ from that used for everything else (so you could put your uClibc toolchain in there instead).

(I can't recall if this is already done.)


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