Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

Olaf Hering
2006-07-11T16:40:43Z

On Tue, Jul 11, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> When you say "loop mount code" I presume you mean legacy initrd support
> (which doesn't use loop mounting.) Legacy initrd support is provided to
> be as compatible as possible, obviously.

Yes.
To create the initrd you needed a loop file, at least for ext2, minix etc.

But so far, the arguments are not convincing that kinit has to be in the
kernel tree.