Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | kinit (was: sleep before boot panic) | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:20:06 +0100 |
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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
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