Re: [BK PATCHES] initramfs merge, part 1 of N

From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 03:42:27 EST


On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:13:45AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The Future.
>
> Early userspace is going to be merged in a series of evolutionary
> changes, following what I call "The Al Viro model." NO KERNEL BEHAVIOR
> SHOULD CHANGE. [that's for the lkml listeners, not you <g>] "make"
> will continue to simply Do The Right Thing(tm) on all platforms, while
> the kernel image continues to get progressively smaller.

Won't the initial userspace be linked into the kernel? If so, why will
the kernel image get smaller?
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