Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:27:49 +0100 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Hmm. What does it take to mount an NFS partition?
Mainly Sun RPC :-(
> Anyway. All I did was wrote a tiny libc that is just a bunch of > wrappers for syscalls, and some string functions.
Certainly a good approach. It's also basically the idea behind newlib, although newlib has more overhead.
Ultimately, I want to be able to compile regular Unix/Linux programs out of the box. Right now, this works for a bunch of trivial programs, and it almost works for ash.
> Now if glibc wouldn't link in 200k of unused crap when you make a > trivial static binary I'd much prefer to use it...
Precisely why I went to newlib ... It's really a pity that glibc is such a monster.
> Though I wish it was possible to have a ramfs preloader instead of > initrd. An initramfs would allow me to not even compile in the block > device driver layer, and be more efficient.
Hmm, this would be tricky. You could do it by implementing a simple tar file reader in the kernel, which reads from /dev/initrd (well, it's in-kernel representation), but I'm not sure if this buys you that much in the end. (How much overhead is in block devices anyway ?)
- Werner
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