Hi, 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*? thanks mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296
Martin Hicks wrote:> Hi, > > 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*? >All of the above -- as well as hopefully additional things in the future, like RAID/LVM autodetection or even possibly partitions. -hpa
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. <b