[klibc] early userspace goals
Bryan O'Sullivan
bos at serpentine.com
Thu Nov 13 11:17:56 PST 2003
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:44, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 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*?
Yes. By the way, it currently does much of this. The BK repository at
http://klibc.bkbits.net/2.5-klibc has the nfsroot and some other
do_mounts code ripped out of the kernel, and replaced with userspace
alternatives.
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