Jason> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> A initrd on a romfs with only a stripped down dhcp client and a c
>> program to configure and mount the nfsroot should be <100K. The
>> initrd is freed after booting so you only waste a small bit of
>> memory on the romfs.
Jason> You must have a more magic-special glibc than I do,
Jason> pandora{jgg}/tmp#echo "int main(){};" > t.c ; gcc -Os t.c
Jason> --static; strip a.out; ls -l a.out -rwxr-xr-x 1 jgg Debian
Jason> 199376 Dec 11 21:37 a.out*
Then you use a stripped down ulibc for building the tools on the
initrd ... you don't necessarily need all the features of glibc to
configure the network interface and run bootp.
Jes
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