On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:01:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > In short, I don't understand why a new technology was necessary.
http://lwn.net/Articles/14776/ http://lwn.net/Articles/14448/ It provides an early userspace environment to do a bunch of things in that used to be done in the kernel - including the initrd handling itself (except for the early, arch-specific stuff). initrd provided an extremely limited "userspace" environment (e.g., no C library, everyting statically linked), but this provides the real thing, including a minimal C library implementation (klibc). Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
