Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Query about initramfs and modules | Date | 16 Jan 2002 11:56:59 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20020116194121.GC32184@codepoet.org> By author: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Keep in mind that insmod current needs to incorporate a full ELF > interpreter in userspace (and the source code needs to know about > all the types of relocations and jump for each arch and for 32 > and 64 bit ELF. Horrible stuff really. If we could cleanup the > kernel's insmod implementation to require merely a syscall > passing a filename to the kernel, it would sure make the > initramfs smaller and simpler. I believe Rusty made a patch to > do this sort of thing.... >
Yeah! Let's put all this crap in KERNEL SPACE! *NOT!*
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