[arch-general] kill-klibc (Was: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.27-1)

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 09.01.2010 20:27, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
> On 09/01/2010 07:06 μμ, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> This is a bugfix release which (among other less important things) fixed
>> the early userspace firmware loading problem. Please sign off.
>>
>> This will hopefully be the last release before we move to 0.6, which
>> will have all klibc dependencies removed, see
>> http://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio.git/?h=kill-klibc for progress.
>> Any contributions here are welcome, nothing works yet.
> 
> What do you think needs doing? I doubt I'll be able to help much, but
> I'm curious. I gave the kill-klibc branch a try in a VM, but --as you
> noted-- all I got was a kernel panic (http://i.imgur.com/h6xDu.png).
> 

We need to replace parseblock and kinit with sh scripts. Then move the
udev hook to the normal udev package instead of klibc-udev. Then it
might boot in a standard setup. I'll do this whenever I have a few hours
of time and the motivation.

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