Re: klibc update

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20030205052354.GL15544@kroah.com>
By author:    Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> For those wondering what's happening with klibc, here's an update...
> 
> I have it building relatively well within the kernel, and have modified
> the usr/gen_init_cpio.c file to add files to the cpio "blob".  That all
> seems to work, but I don't seem to be able to extract the files properly
> (or at least that's what I'm guessing is happening).
> 
> If anyone wants to see the current progress, there's a big patch against
> 2.5.59 at:
> 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/klibc/klibc-2.5.59.patch.gz
> and a bk tree with the different changes broken down into "logical"
> chunks at:
> 	bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/klibc-2.5
> 
> Any help with trying to debug init/initramfs.c to figure out what is
> going wrong would be greatly appreciated.
> 

Very cool :)

I will look at your stuff some time next week when I'm in .se for
NordU2003.  Until then I'm afraid I'll have my hands full with
non-Linux work :(

	-hpa


P.S. klibc-0.76 removes the much-complained-about Digest::MD5
dependence.

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