Dave Cinege wrote the following argument in favor of /linuxrc
(and his proposed boot line parameter to give it an arbitrary name):
> Standardized way to execute things prior to init
> Will not fail for lack of /dev/console (Current init= will!)
I sent Dave a longer response, but having thought about it
a bit more, I now see a simpler solution:
Whatever console mechanism the kernel uses up to the point
it executes /linuxrc, it should continue use until it invokes /sbin/init.
Then, /sbin/init should mount /dev first, and then execute something like:
fd = open("/dev/vc/0", O_RDWR);
ioctl(fd, TIOCCONS, &fd);
close(fd);
This would eliminate one more depency on the contents of the
root file system, which would be a small step in the longer path toward
being able to build a kernel without most of the filesystem code for
really tiny embedded applications.
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