initramfs and where user space truly begins [LWN.net]

initramfs and where user space truly begins

Posted Jul 13, 2006 16:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: initramfs and where user space truly begins by dlang
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IIRC Rob Landley was using words like 'no chance' regarding getting large parts of busybox to work (please correct me if I'm talking nonsense, Rob, my memory is hazy right now due to insomnia).

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initramfs and where user space truly begins

Posted Jul 14, 2006 5:09 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

not all the work needs to be done by Rob or the busybox developers

remember that maintaining a large patch out-of-kernel is a significant drain on a projects resources, once it can move into the kernel that drain is stopped and the time can be spent on other things, including (in this case) plugging the holes tha prevent it from working with more apps (to a large degree anyway, they don't want to have to support every function call forever)