From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:47:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AF502F.9010009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45AF4CF9.1070801@wpkg.org>
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>> All right.
>>> I see that initramfs is attached to the kernel itself.
>>>
>>> So it leaves me only a question: will I fit all tools into 300 kB
>>> (considering I'll use uClibc and busybox)?
>>>
>>
>> You don't need to use busybox and have a bunch of tools.
>>
>> The klibc distribution comes with "kinit", which does the equivalent
>> to the kernel root-mounting code; it's in the tens of kilobytes, at
>> least on x86. If you're using ARM, you can compile it as Thumb.
>
> Hmm, I'm having problems compiling klibc-1.4 on ARM (using gcc-4.1.1):
>
Could you send me your kernel .config, as well as what version of the
kernel you're building against?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-18 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-17 12:58 kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"? Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-17 14:09 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-18 10:33 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 10:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-01-18 11:48 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-17 13:37 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-17 13:56 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 14:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-17 14:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-18 10:50 Al Borchers
2007-01-18 14:21 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-19 4:12 ` Al Borchers
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