[klibc] State of initramfs and klibc

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 14 12:42:37 PDT 2003


Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:41, Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. wrote:
> 
> 
>>I understand from this thread that the initramfs stuff is already 
>>working and that we can can start writing software so we can offload 
>>most of the boot magic in the kernel? Is it necessary to wait for 
>>klibc to start doing that? I thought klibc must be finished first.
> 
> 
> klibc is in a decent state at the moment, though I think it might have
> suffered a little bit rot with recent kernel releases.
> 

I'll try to see if I can address the bit rot.  Unfortunately I've been
suffering time rot lately (I need to find a new place to live and move,
again, in the next few months... just as I finally had gotten well
settled at the current place.  Sigh.)  ... but I'll see what I can do.

	-hpa



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