On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:20:52AM +0100, Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wael Nasreddine schrieb: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:22:08AM +0100, Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> You are welcome. > >> > >> > >> BTW.vmiklos told me you want to work on the initramfs things. I saw the > >> work you have done is based on archlinux framework. > >> Do you use 'klibc' for udev , utils etc for the initramfs stuff ? > >> > > Yep, the initramfs I made for phoenix is based on archlinux's one, I used > > klibc, > > > > I got a reason to ask you about 'klibc'. > Klibc is not supported 'anymore' by udev and soonish the whole code will > be dropped ( not only parts removed like is now ) > what means we have to backport and revert thinks forever which we don't > really want. > Using glibc is a bit crazy while bloated so I think the right direction > is to use busybox ( the svn version got already builtin initramfs > support but ohh well is svn :)) +uclibc or dietlibc. > I know about it, but looking at the revert patch, it wouldn't be *that* hard to port it to new versions of udev, I mean take a look at it[1]. anyway It's too bad they droped udev support for klibc coz You really feel the difference when booting with initramfs/klibc or initrd/busybox, it's much faster since the image is too small only Needed modules and a couple of binaries included
> > > Tomorrow I will starting working on initramfs for FrugalWare, I will mail > > you > > guys about the progress and with the darcs repo... > > > > Thx for working on this. You're welcome :) [1]: http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/base/klibc-udev/klibc-remove-revert.patch?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=Current&only_with_tag=CURRENT&content-type=text/plain -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
