Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:44:30 -0600 (CST)


On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> I'm surprised someone hasn't argues to hack the kernel to provide
> certain bultins (shudder)...

Did it. I wrote a romdisk driver for 2.0.x that lets you use a read only
filesystem image that can be in arbitrary regions of memory, including
embedded in the kernel image. Not quite running in kernel space, but still
"builtin".

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