From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matt Porter <porter@cox.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] initramfs merge, part 1 of N
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 04:14:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC3C1AA.7060602@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021102101239.A9442@home.com
Matt Porter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:13:45AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>#4 - move mounting root to userspace
>>
>>People probably breathed a sigh of relief at patch #3, they will heave a
>>bigger sigh for this patch :) This moves mounting of the root
>>filesystem to early userspace, including getting rid of
>>NFSroot/bootp/dhcp code in the kernel.
>
>
> For those of us who only develop on nfsroot-based systems, does this
> step include adding userspace network interface configuration and
> bootp/dhcp client functionality to kinit? I want to assume that
> "getting rid of NFSroot/bootp/dhcp" means moving that particular
> functionality as part of this step. Just wondering what the
> short-term impact will be on the poor embedded guys. :)
>
Probably not to kinit, but to early userspace, yes. There is no real
reason to put everything into kinit, and a lot of these things we have
already written up as part of the klibc bundle.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-02 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-02 8:13 [BK PATCHES] initramfs merge, part 1 of N Jeff Garzik
2002-11-02 8:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-02 8:42 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-11-02 8:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-02 8:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-02 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-02 12:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-02 20:24 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-02 23:46 ` Dave Cinege
2002-11-02 10:51 ` miltonm
2002-11-02 17:12 ` Matt Porter
2002-11-02 12:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-11-02 20:37 ` an idling kernel Anu
2002-11-02 22:16 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03 0:43 ` identifying the idling kernel and kernel hacking Anu
2002-11-04 19:16 ` an idling kernel Werner Almesberger
2002-11-02 20:37 ` [BK PATCHES] initramfs merge, part 1 of N Alexander Viro
2002-11-02 23:36 ` Matt Porter
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