klibc - Jan 2006 - klibc-1.2.1: kinit works...

I just pushed out klibc-1.2.1; it actually has a working kinit.  There 
are still pieces missing, but at least it works for ipconfig+nfsroot, 
which has been my test configuration.

There is code to handle initrd already in kinit, but it hasn't been 
tested and so is almost certainly broken; I think the code to load a 
ramdisk from a floppy or other block device is not yet there.

	-hpa

On 1/29/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> I just pushed out klibc-1.2.1; it actually has a working kinit.  There
> are still pieces missing, but at least it works for ipconfig+nfsroot,
> which has been my test configuration.
Just curious, is there any plan to add some sort of system to load
modules before running kinit.  I've been doing some work
here-and-there with a similar initramfs setup, where all the pre-root
modules are added to the initramfs rather than built-in.

What are your opinions of loading modules, creating device nodes, then
passing things off to kinit.  Would you recommend something like this?
 Or would it make more sense to ignore kinit in a case like this?

Thanks,
Aaron