Re: [BK PATCHES] initramfs merge, part 1 of N

[H. Peter Anvin]

Matt Porter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:13:45AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>#4 - move mounting root to userspace
>>
>>People probably breathed a sigh of relief at patch #3, they will heave a 
>>bigger sigh for this patch :)   This moves mounting of the root 
>>filesystem to early userspace, including getting rid of 
>>NFSroot/bootp/dhcp code in the kernel.
> 
> 
> For those of us who only develop on nfsroot-based systems, does this
> step include adding userspace network interface configuration and
> bootp/dhcp client functionality to kinit?  I want to assume that
> "getting rid of NFSroot/bootp/dhcp" means moving that particular
> functionality as part of this step.  Just wondering what the
> short-term impact will be on the poor embedded guys. :)
> 

Probably not to kinit, but to early userspace, yes.  There is no real 
reason to put everything into kinit, and a lot of these things we have 
already written up as part of the klibc bundle.

	-hpa