Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:13:09 +0000


On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:50:48AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Exactly. And you build it for the specific purpose of just
> configuring the system. And by not handling the general case you
> should be able to get another significant size reduction.

You do not want to be too specific though - a kernel with features
X, Y, and Z in the current setup can boot using any of those features
by just supplying the appropriate command line.

The reason HPA wanted to go down the userspace route, btw, was to
support additional add-ons for bringing other stuff up - remember this
is part of the initramfs spec that was reviewed by this list many
months ago? Or has that now gone completely out of the window?

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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