[arch-dev-public] Dumping klibc (WAS: Re: Changing raid/raid-partitions initcpio hooks)

Tobias Powalowski schrieb:

Now comes the point, to achive this, mdadm will be needed in initramfs which means having a 900k static binary in early boot sequence. (raid-partitions hook already uses this binary)

I am really annoyed by the fact that almost nothing builds against klibc. Wouldn't it be easier to switch to uclibc and busybox? Both are much more powerful and we wouldn't need static binaries for lvm, cryptsetup or mdadm. We would also have much less problems with all the ABI changes that happen with klibc. I thought we needed a complete toolchain for that, but Jan claimed that it is possible to use our normal gcc and binutils for that.