From: malware@t-online.de (Michael Mueller)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:15:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303070715.IAA27138@fire.malware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1046996987.17718.144.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
Hi Alan,
you wrote:
> > I'd prefer not to have to have thousands of special programs around
> > just to be able to boot my machines, especially when it was all in-
> > kernel up until this point.
> >
> > klibc yes, dietlibc with random other garbage in some random filesystem
> > which'd need maintaining - no thanks.
>
> You can build the dhcp client with glibc static into your initrd. Its hardly
> magic or special programs or random garbage, and last time I counted it came
> to one program. Dunno what the other 999 utilities your dhcp needs are ?
Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has
a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no
way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP
stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4
still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space
help.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-06 21:10 Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module Robin Holt
2003-03-06 22:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-06 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-06 22:25 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 22:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-07 0:13 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-06 23:19 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-07 0:08 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 1:29 ` Chris Dukes
2003-03-07 9:42 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 11:46 ` Bogdan Costescu
2003-03-08 2:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 10:45 ` Bogdan Costescu
2003-03-08 16:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 16:19 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 16:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-08 17:05 ` Russell King
2003-03-08 18:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-03-07 13:38 ` Chris Dukes
2003-03-07 14:29 ` Russell King
2003-03-07 16:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-07 21:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-07 22:00 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-07 7:15 ` Michael Mueller [this message]
2003-03-07 12:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-07 21:33 ` Michael Mueller
2003-03-09 4:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-03-07 9:10 ` Denis Vlasenko
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