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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:03:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47850C89.2040805@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080108160645.GA4574@ucw.cz>

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.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 18:08 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 [this message]
2008-01-10 19:20           ` kinit (was: sleep before boot panic) Ingo Oeser
2008-01-08 16:11     ` sleep before boot panic Andi Kleen
2008-01-15  9:38 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <9II6K-1Pg-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <9IJ2M-3l2-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <9IJme-3Nb-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <9IKrY-5vk-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-01-07 11:47       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 15:03         ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-08 13:26           ` Bodo Eggert

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