On 6/22/2015 6:42 PM, post-sysv wrote:
Handling stages 1 and 3 may need some additions to conditional logic,
however.
The idea would be that different plugins would represent some abstract
notion at some stage in the boot process, i.e. "mount the root
filesystem" would be abstracted away to a script that was
correct/specific for the platform it was on, and the init would simply
"call" the program/script/symlink at a pre-arranged location. No
conditional logic needed, just point to the right plugins. :)
Introducing shared objects in this would be overkill though, unless
you're using the word "plugin" to mean a script using a common interface.
Yes, plugin in this context is an externally callable script or program
of some kind, called by the init in the correct ordering/sequence. A
control script or program would do the coordination and "call" each
"plugin".
You said there are others with a similar approach, I guess I need to do
some additional homework.
