From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932067AbWGKSRe (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:17:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932068AbWGKSRe (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:17:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:26316 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932067AbWGKSRd (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:17:33 -0400 Message-ID: <44B3EB28.1050007@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:17:12 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hering CC: Jeff Garzik , Michael Tokarev , Roman Zippel , torvalds@osdl.org, klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? References: <20060711112746.GA14059@suse.de> <44B3D0A0.7030409@zytor.com> <20060711164040.GA16327@suse.de> <44B3DA77.50103@garzik.org> <20060711171624.GA16554@suse.de> <44B3DEA0.3010106@zytor.com> <20060711173030.GA16693@suse.de> <44B3E40E.2090306@zytor.com> <20060711180126.GB16869@suse.de> <44B3E814.3060004@zytor.com> <20060711181055.GC16869@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060711181055.GC16869@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Olaf Hering wrote: > Now I'm confused. > Is the kernel partition code supposed to go at some point? > Some people suggested that, but Linus was not convinced. It's a proposal, and I personally think it makes sense. If done, it is obviously very important that it doesn't change the overall operation of the system. > If you mean just 'interpreting the partition table', thats not hard > either. I just poked at such code in yaboot a few weeks ago. It's not hard; any of the partition table stuff, but we have quite a proliferation of them. It'd be even easier in userspace. -hpa