From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:46:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:46:07 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:4622 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:46:07 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: initramfs work Date: 5 Oct 2002 00:51:23 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <200210050512.g955CSx86532@sullivan.realtime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2002 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200210050512.g955CSx86532@sullivan.realtime.net> By author: "Milton D. Miller II" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Al, > Is there somewhere one could see what you are planning to merge? > > I was following the klibc dicussion list, but the archiver went slient after > August. > > I like the idea in general, but I wasn't sure where this was going. It > looked like the discussion there was going for replacing the do_mounts with > the kernel uncpio/uncompress followed by a bunch of small utilities and > scripts. I had some other ideas that I played with, but depend on starting > with a single binary to make a lot of sense (going for the multi-call binary > base approach). (This would leave the initrd file for the user space). > > If there is some place to get a preview I would appreciate it. > The next step is to get it all merged into the kernel tree. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt