Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I have one that loads a second kernel over the network using dhcp 
> > to configure it's interface and tftp to fetch the image and boots
> > that is only 20kb uncompressed....
> 
> Neat ;-) My goal is actually not only size, but also to have a relatively
> normal build environment, e.g. my example is with shared newlib, regular
> ash, and - unfortunately rather wasteful - glibc's ld.so.
> 
> But a tftp loader in 20kB is rather good. Now the next challenge is the
> same thing with NFS. Then we can finally kill nfsroot ;-)

Hmm. What does it take to mount an NFS partition?

Anyway.  All I did was wrote a tiny libc that is just a bunch of
wrappers for syscalls, and some string functions.  Then I just wrote
a straight forward C program to do the job.  Except for my added
kexec call I can compile with glibc :)

Now if glibc wouldn't link in 200k of unused crap when you make a
trivial static binary I'd much prefer to use it...

Though I wish it was possible to have a ramfs preloader instead of
initrd.  An initramfs would allow me to not even compile in the block
device driver layer, and be more efficient.

Eric
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