On Jul 18 2007 20:20, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> Well, how big the vmlinux file is matters if it doesn't fit in memory >> with enough time to get to the phase where it is dumping the init >> sections. > >If you don't have enough memory for a few tens of KB of init sections >you're very unlikely to have enough memory for user space.
If the code was not too hackish, I would not buy that. Routers for example can run -- minus the userspace utilities required to set things up -- "without" userspace. Maybe someone even comes along and writes the network interface setup as __init kernel code. If not that, maybe a code generator. I also remember someone who posted sort of a "kernel console" patch (same reason - to avoid userspace). Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/