Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.

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To: Alan Cox <alan@...>
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Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 - 7:14 pm

Alan Cox wrote:

Obviously.  I'm equally obviously referring to klibc, which was designed 
so that the resulting vmlinux/bzImage/... file contains the necessary 
initramfs, regardless of issues like cross-compilation, draconian size 
restrictions(*), and so forth.

	-hpa

(*) Not saying that a klibc-based initramfs is necessarily smaller than 
the in-kernel code it replaces, but the total size is << than the size 
of the kernel proper, which isn't true when using a full-featured libc.
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Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project, James Bottomley, (Thu May 29, 10:26 am)
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RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel., David Woodhouse, (Thu May 29, 12:15 pm)
Re: RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Thu May 29, 9:22 pm)
Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of..., Mauro Carvalho Chehab, (Sun Jun 8, 7:13 am)
Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of..., Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, (Fri May 30, 9:47 am)
Re: RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel., Jeff Garzik, (Thu May 29, 3:12 pm)
Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of..., H. Peter Anvin, (Fri May 30, 7:14 pm)
Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Thu May 29, 9:27 pm)
Re: RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel., David Woodhouse, (Thu May 29, 5:18 pm)
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