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Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?
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Olaf Hering wrote:
> But for the partition discovery (the ROOT_DEV users) its likely less than
> 100 lines of code. And after all, root= exists. Probably not a big loss if
> that code just disappears.

Partition discovery is not "the ROOT_DEV users".  It's the mapping of 
certain chunks of disk to partitions.

	-hpa