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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: kinit (was: sleep before boot panic)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:20:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801102020.07786.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47850C89.2040805@zytor.com>

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> >> Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would 
> >> have been done exclusively in userspace...
> > 
> > What's the status of kinit, btw?
> > 							Pavel
> 
> It's bitrotted a bit since it was first rejected.  It wouldn't take too 
> much work to bring it back up to speed, however.  klibc, and some of the 
> kinit components, are used for the initramfs in Debian.

Yes, and I like most of it. The only thing really missing for me 
is LVM support. Debian (?) did a evil hack to make it work.
Maybe one day this itches soo much, I'll even scratch it :-)

Then I'll be able to test kernels on a standard LVM installation again.

So please keep up the good work!


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 18:08 sleep before boot panic Bernd Schubert
2008-01-06 19:01 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-06 19:23   ` Bernd Schubert
2008-01-06 20:38     ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-07 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  6:17   ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-08  6:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 16:06       ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-09 18:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-10 19:20           ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2008-01-08 16:11     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-15  9:38 ` Andrew Morton

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