Re: [RFC] klibc requirements

Juan Quintela
2002-01-09T13:27:46Z

>>>>> "felix" == Felix von Leitner <felix-dietlibc@fefe.de> writes:

Hi

>> Comments from the various libc authors? Comments from other kernel
>> developers about requirements and goals they would like to see from such
>> a libc?

felix> I think you need to ask initrd users.
felix> My understanding was that people want to use the IP autoconfiguration
felix> stuff from the kernel to initrd. Is that still so? What other programs
felix> are needed?

I can think of that in a fast thought:

- if fsck.* can be there, it will make fs nice, just now they have to
be able to fsck a ro root fs.
- I suppose that you can put here also the raid autodetect code and
things like that.
- you also need a very small minishell, something like nash (that
cames with mkinitrd will suffice).
Basic utility here is that you want to have several small programs
and have a small shell script to configure them (a distribution
dont' want to recompile all its boot programs for each target
configuration).
- as I suppose that you have supposed insmod is essential :)
- you already put there IP autoconfiguration.

Later, Juan.

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