[klibc] New to this list, and a first question

[Harald Dunkel]

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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| Oh, I see what you're going for.  This hopefully will be taken care of
| by integrating klibc into the kernel build tree, I hope.
|
| People have asked for a way to build with klibc outside the klibc tree.
| This is much more complex, because klibc uses Makefiles to get all the
| right compiler options.  See some of the archives for more info.
|

I am not sure about building klibc together with the
kernel, either. IIRC one goal of initramfs is to
move functionality from kernel into user space. So
why stick with the kernel build environment for this
user space stuff?

Surely there should be a well defined interface
between kernel and the tools on initramfs. But
it would help alot if there is some stability in
this interface. This would make it possible to
prepare a single initramfs skeleton for any recent
kernel (e.g. a skeleton for LVM support, or a
skeleton for NFS mount, etc.). On a kernel update
all you have to do is to select the right skeleton
for your boot method, append some new kernel modules
to this cpio file, and you are done.


Regards

Harri


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