Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel | From | "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <> | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2019 02:22:53 +0100 |
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On 07.03.19 01:33, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> *There* *may* *be* *no* *filesystem*.
A Linux system w/o any filesystem at all ? Well, that's interesting.
> The only thing the kernel can really guarantee is its own> existence --- it should be entire in itself.
I vaguely recall some option for linking in an initrd ... does this still exist ?
> If I'm hacking on an> Android kernel and say "fastboot boot mykernel" without making any> changes to the device's boot filesystem, I should still be able to use> tracing tools that rely on knowing the headers for the kernel with
Fix fastboot to support initrd or use a remote filesystem ?
I'm doing embedded development all the day, and one of the first things I usually set up for a project is an fully automatic netboot (or at least usb boot). Shouldn't be so hard, and is a more generic solution.
--mtx
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