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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Query about initramfs and modules
Date16 Jan 2002 11:56:59 -0800
Followup to:  <20020116194121.GC32184@codepoet.org>
By author:    Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Keep in mind that insmod current needs to incorporate a full ELF
> interpreter in userspace (and the source code needs to know about
> all the types of relocations and jump for each arch and for 32
> and 64 bit ELF.  Horrible stuff really.  If we could cleanup the
> kernel's insmod implementation to require merely a syscall
> passing a filename to the kernel, it would sure make the
> initramfs smaller and simpler.  I believe Rusty made a patch to
> do this sort of thing....
> 

Yeah!  Let's put all this crap in KERNEL SPACE!  *NOT!*

	-hpa
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