Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of thekernel.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat May 31 2008 - 11:21:04 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
(*) Not saying that a klibc-based initramfs is necessarily smaller than the in-kernel code it replaces, but the total size is << than the size of the kernel proper, which isn't true when using a full-featured libc.

True but with a vendor hat on thats not usually a problem on modern
systems and using glibc means less code to maintain, less special cases,
and more flexibility.

For embedded klibc may well be interesting.

For vendor hat meaning full-blown systems, yes that is true, but for embedded, or even on some "real" platforms, that definitely matters.

Fundamentally, however, we're never going to have a full-blown libc environment built out of the kernel tree, as its size would be comparable or larger than the kernel itself.

-hpa
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