Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 2) Follow the other distributions and load the needed drivers (and only 
> them) from initramfs with the help of udev. This requires a full redesign of 
> the initramfs and dropping the C-based /init binary.
> 

I prefer this option, mostly because it reduces the size of the kernel 
(I assume anything that can be modular will be...) by a great deal. And 
it does seem to be the standard approach - there's something to be said 
for that. Still, why does this require dropping the C init?

I'm not really objecting to doing that (at least for the x86 cd - if I 
ever do get around to building a sparc cd I may have to continue using 
the C-based init), I just want to understand fully why it is required to 
use a shell-based init.

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JH

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