[Frugalware-devel] Introducing myself.

[Wael Nasreddine]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:20:52AM +0100, Gabriel C <nix.or.die at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Wael Nasreddine schrieb:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:22:08AM +0100, Gabriel C <nix.or.die at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> You are  welcome.
> >>
> >>
> >> BTW.vmiklos told me you want to work on the initramfs things. I saw the
> >> work you have done is based on archlinux framework.
> >> Do you use 'klibc'  for udev , utils etc  for the initramfs stuff ?
> >>     
> > Yep, the initramfs I made for phoenix is based on archlinux's one, I used klibc,
> >   
> 
> I got a reason to ask you about 'klibc'.
> Klibc is not supported 'anymore' by udev and soonish the whole code will
> be dropped ( not only parts removed like is now )
> what means we have to backport and revert thinks forever which we don't
> really want.
> Using glibc is a bit crazy while bloated so I think the right direction
> is to use busybox ( the svn version got already builtin initramfs
> support but ohh well is svn :)) +uclibc or dietlibc.
> 
I know about it, but looking at the revert patch, it wouldn't be *that* hard to
port it to new versions of udev, I mean take a look at it[1]. anyway It's too
bad they droped udev support for klibc coz You really feel the difference when booting
with initramfs/klibc or initrd/busybox, it's much faster since the image is too
small only Needed modules and a couple of binaries included

> 
> > Tomorrow I will starting working on initramfs for FrugalWare, I will mail you
> > guys about the progress and with the darcs repo...
> >   
> 
> Thx for working on this.
You're welcome :)

[1]:
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/base/klibc-udev/klibc-remove-revert.patch?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=Current&only_with_tag=CURRENT&content-type=text/plain
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