similar to: early userspace goals

Hello, There seems to be problem in the cpio unpack in the kernel in initramfs. I have an empty "/sys" directory in my cpio archive, but it never shows up in my extracted initramfs. I've confirmed that extracting the archive again with cpio results in a correct tree, but it doesn't appear on boot when extracted by the kernel. Any ideas? I poked a bit, but I haven't

ext2 & ext3 lists, Attatched is a patch that allows ext2 and ext3 to link correctly when the kernel is configured with a large NR_CPUS. We do have an immediate need for this patch. Any opinions on this? The per-cpu lists are causing the kmalloc to fail due to allocating more than the max. thanks mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com

Hi Peter, I need this small patch to get udev to compile against the latest klibc. I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, but it fixes the compile. thanks mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: The kernel C library # This patch format is

Hi, Two patches to add ftruncate and vsyslog syscalls. These were in the klibc that Greg K-H has in the udev tarball. I got his permission to contribute them to the main-line klibc. mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: klibc-ftruncate.diff Type:

I've been having an exchange of e-mails with Bryan O'Sullivan regarding this problem. I thought it time to bring it to the list. I've run into a problem where my initramfs archives get this during bootup: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd The same .cpio archive works if I don't gzip it. I stuck a bunch of debug statements into

Peter, There was a mis-merge in the ia64 patch you put into 0.83. Olaf Hering pointed it out. The patch is attached. Olaf claims that he is still unable to compile for ia64 with is toolchain. He's getting the following error: <olh> libc.so(.got+0x0): multiple definition of `_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_' <olh> tests/getenvtest.o(.got.plt+0x0): first defined here <olh>

Me again, Here's a patch to fix ctypes. There was an off-by-one correction that looks like it isn't needed. Boundary conditions and single-entry items, like isspace(), now work for me. mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: The kernel C library

Pipe's a strange syscall. Here is a fix for ia64. mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: The kernel C library # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas: #

This is an early userspace type question. I have an initramfs that does some root device setup, then tries to mount the real root partition and exec /sbin/init to start the real userland. It seems to do what I want, except that bootlogd hangs while mount /proc. I can't seem to figure out why. I'm booting with init=/bin/bash. bash is dynamically linked, and the appropriate libs are in

Hi, Here are some new library functions for klibc. Some of them are required for udev, which currently has a klibc_fixups.c file that implements these functions. mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: The kernel C library # This patch format is intended

Hi, Greg - I have a 2.5.70 BK repository, with klibc integrated, at: bk://klibc.bkbits.net/2.5-klibc This repo has the following features: * Completely up-to-date w.r.t. klibc itself. * Kbuild sort of happy, but still needs an eyeball from Kai to figure out why it always rebuilds everything in usr/. * Supports both IP autoconfig and NFS root from initramfs.

This seem to be a good timing taking up the integration of klibc in the kernel again. Based one klibc-0.152 and klibc.bkbits.net/2.5-klibc I will take a shot of it. I will focus on getting the library compiled (should be pretty straighforward). Next two steps are: 2) Adding minimum applications to the kernel (if any) 3) Support applications outside the kernel I will put my work on bkbits.net

OK guys, I've been communicating with Greg KH and I think I'm ready to tackle getting the early userspace stuff to a more functional level than it stands today (quite a commitment there, eh?). Before I get started, I wanted to list the major points I see that need to be done to make sure I'm not duplicating anyone else's efforts, or reinventing something that's already

A tiny patch to add a spotless target to the kinit Makefile -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: The kernel C library # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas: #

Hi, Here is a fix for some missing libgcc magic in the ia64 build. A recent problem with udev uncovered this. PPC needs a similar fix. Olaf will send a patch, I imagine. Both unified diff and bk diff (for Bryan) are attached. mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296 -------------- next part -------------- # User: mort # Host:

Building on the work in ff0a614bd724f6c4c6a5014a9955dc1bc028f336, this moves the capability code down into the run-init library, so that run-init can use it as well, via the new "-d" flag. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at outflux.net> --- usr/kinit/Kbuild | 3 +-- usr/kinit/capabilities.h | 10 ++++++++++ usr/kinit/kinit.c | 6 +++---

This patch adds the ability to kinit to allow the dropping of POSIX capabilities. kinit is modified by this change, such that it understands the new kernel command line "drop_capabilities=" that specifies a comma separated list of capability names that should be dropped before switching over to the next init in the boot strap (typically on the root disk). When processing capabilities

Hi, Greg - The latest set of klibc work is all accessible from http://www.speakeasy.org/~bos Here's a brief description of each part. The patches are as independent as possible, and are in BitKeeper format. * ipconfig-2.5.69.patch removes ipconfig from the kernel, and prevents CONFIG_ROOT_NFS from working. * nfsroot-2.5.69.patch removes nfsroot from the kernel. *

git mv resume.c resumelib.c and the addition of a minimal resume.c, which calls resume() from resumelib produces a small standalone resume. happy to hear feedback on the needed kinit/Kbuild changes. resulting resume bin is small: ls -l /usr/lib/klibc/bin/resume -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2904 2006-07-11 02:11 /usr/lib/klibc/bin/resume it reduces busybox dependency of Debian initramfs-tools: if [ -e

Looking at do_mounts.c, it does not seem to support the "major:minor" syntax exported in 'newer' sysfs (according to linux-2.6.15.6/init). The following is untested, but might work nicely... I will fully test this when I get home later today. PS, I also added some error output when it fails to parse the device number, just for kicks. As I said, I can't test this, so feel