Re: [RFC] klibc requirements

[Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>]

>>>>> "felix" == Felix von Leitner <felix-dietlibc@fefe.de> writes:

Hi

>> Comments from the various libc authors?  Comments from other kernel
>> developers about requirements and goals they would like to see from such
>> a libc?

felix> I think you need to ask initrd users.
felix> My understanding was that people want to use the IP autoconfiguration
felix> stuff from the kernel to initrd.  Is that still so?  What other programs
felix> are needed?

I can think of that in a fast thought:

- if fsck.* can be there, it will make fs nice, just now they have to
  be able to fsck a ro root fs.
- I suppose that you can put here also the raid autodetect code and
  things like that.
- you also need a very small minishell, something like nash (that
  cames with mkinitrd will suffice).
  Basic utility here is that you want to have several small programs
  and have a small shell script to configure them (a distribution
  dont' want to recompile all its boot programs for each target
  configuration).
- as I suppose that you have supposed insmod is essential :)
- you already put there IP autoconfiguration.

Later, Juan.



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