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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:33:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AE8818.1050803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45AE2E25.50309@wpkg.org>

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 
> All right.
> I see that initramfs is attached to the kernel itself.
> 
> So it leaves me only a question: will I fit all tools into 300 kB 
> (considering I'll use uClibc and busybox)?
> 

You don't need to use busybox and have a bunch of tools.

The klibc distribution comes with "kinit", which does the equivalent to 
the kernel root-mounting code; it's in the tens of kilobytes, at least 
on x86.  If you're using ARM, you can compile it as Thumb.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-17 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-17 12:58 Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-17 14:09   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 20:33     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-01-18 10:33       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 10:47         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-18 11:48           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 18:48             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-17 13:37 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-17 13:56   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-17 14:06     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-17 14:12       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-18 10:50 Al Borchers
2007-01-18 14:21 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-01-18 20:33   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-19  4:12   ` Al Borchers

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