[klibc] early userspace goals

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Nov 13 11:00:37 PST 2003


Martin Hicks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been messing around with the early userspace for the last couple
> days.  What are the goals of early userspace?   Is the end goal to use
> it as an initrd replacement or is it simply to do all the mounting
> (nfsroot, initrd, hard disk) that is currently done in init/do_mounts*?
> 

All of the above -- as well as hopefully additional things in the
future, like RAID/LVM autodetection or even possibly partitions.

	-hpa



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