Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1

[Philip Blundell]

>Don't forget that when run as an initrd, it would have to be staticly
>linked against libc and friends (making it at weigh in at about 300k),

If you restrict your usage of libc calls to a minimum you can make it much 
smaller.  You can write a minimal, fairly portable, tftp client using not much 
more than socket(), connect(), read(), write() and brk().  The libc 
implementation for each of those routines is just a handful of bytes.

p.