Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit | From | Michael Schmitz <> | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:13:32 +1200 |
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Hi Geert,
On 29/06/21 7:17 am, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> The warning is printed when using filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz, >>> which is a very old ramdisk from right after the m68k a.out to ELF >>> transition: >>> >>> warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call >>> Fix your initscripts? >>> >>> I still boot it, once in a while. >> OK; you take the cake. That ramdisk came to mind when I thought about >> where I'd last seen bdflush, but I've not used it in ages (not sure 14 >> MB are enough for that). > Of course it will work on your 14 MiB machine! It fits on a floppy, _after_ > decompression. It was used by people to install Linux on the hard disks > of their beefy m68k machines, after they had set up the family Christmas > tree, in December 1996. Been there, done that. Wrote the HOWTO for ext2 filesystem byte-swapping. > I also have a slightly larger one, built from OpenWRT when I did my first > experiments on that. Unlike filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz, it does open > a shell on the serial console, so it is more useful to me. > >> The question then is - will bdflush fail gracefully, or spin retrying >> the syscall? > Will add to my todo list... > BTW, you can boot this ramdisk on ARAnyM, too.
True. I can't find that ramdisk image anywhere - if you can point me to some archive, I'll give that a try.
Cheers,
Michael
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert >
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