[gobolinux-users] InitRamFS and cpio format

[Carlo Calica]

On 5/28/07, Aitor Pérez Iturri <aitor.iturri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At the moment i have this recipes (i will send them as soon as
> possible):
>
> * Dietlibc
> * Klibc
> * Klibc-Udev, this package needs to be done with a explicit recipe
> because latest udev release doesn't support klibc implementations, and
> while the make process it needs to be passed some variables to the make
> utility.
> * Diet-LVM, this doesn't need a recipe, can be compiled passing
> additional arguments to Compile.
> * Diet-Device-Mapper, same as above.
>
> Now i'm trying to compile suspend against a little glibc implementation
> to save space.
>

How small can you get glibc?  Might be better to just have that rather
than klibc, dietlibc, and glibc?  Do you have numbers on the relative
sizes?

> The whole process of build the initramfs cpio file could be done using
> uClibC and busysbox without any problem or change (only changes into
> the config file and maybe minimal changes into the init script), so is
> very configurable to our needs.
>

Again size #'s would be useful.  I'd prefer to have actual udev (with
our config files) rather than busybox's version.  It'll keep all dev
names consistent then.  Does it generate /dev/disk/by-* entries
correctly?

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Carlo J. Calica