From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
felix-dietlibc@fefe.de
Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:47:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109154742.B28755@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201092005.g09K5OL28043@snark.thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201091247510.865-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201091247510.865-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>; from mochel@osdl.org on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:55:29PM -0800
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>:
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > greg k-h:
> > >What does everyone else need/want there?
> >
> > dmidecode, so the init script can dump a DMI report in a known
> > location such as /var/run/dmi.
>
> Why do you need that during that stage of the boot process? The DMI tables
> won't go away.
I know. My proposal to put dmidecode in initramfs is an alternative to
/proc/dmi, one which won't involve having dmidecode run in kernelspace.
The underlying problem is that dmidecode needs access to kmem, and I can't
assume that the person running my configurator will be root.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the
people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some
rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no
majority has a right to deprive them of.
-- Albert Gallatin, Oct 7 1789
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 20:05 initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 20:43 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09 20:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 21:01 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09 22:07 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09 21:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 23:30 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-12 5:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 20:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-09 20:47 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-09 22:41 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-09 22:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 11:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-09 23:29 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-09 23:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 10:35 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-12 5:36 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-12 18:11 ` Oliver Xymoron
[not found] <fa.gs2ktfv.1r00h12@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.kj79fuv.1angmqd@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-10 17:13 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-10 17:28 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 17:43 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 17:47 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <fa.d7rnnnv.1l1gnri@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.p5gg3pv.1iiscrg@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-10 11:22 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-09 20:25 Torrey Hoffman
2002-01-10 0:02 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-09 17:54 Torrey Hoffman
2002-01-09 18:06 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-09 18:28 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 18:49 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-08 19:24 [RFC] klibc requirements Greg KH
2002-01-09 4:23 ` Felix von Leitner
2002-01-09 4:34 ` initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Greg KH
2002-01-09 6:10 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 7:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 9:33 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-09 10:00 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-09 10:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 15:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 16:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-09 16:26 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 16:29 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 16:48 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09 21:15 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2002-01-09 21:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 21:40 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 21:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 22:15 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-10 0:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 0:38 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-10 2:42 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 14:09 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-10 22:24 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-11 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 22:12 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020109154742.B28755@thyrsus.com \
--to=esr@thyrsus.com \
--cc=esr@snark.thyrsus.com \
--cc=felix-dietlibc@fefe.de \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mochel@osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.