[Clfs-dev] Systemd and adjtime

[Martin Ward]

On 11/03/14 01:48, William Harrington wrote:
>
> On Mar 10, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Martin Ward wrote:
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>>> We need to redo the whole boot method. I suggest an init.c which 
>>> does everything and scrap bootscripts,
>> could you explain a bit more
>
> Basically the init.c binary does all that bootscripts would do, it's 
> almost like what an init script in an initrd would perform. Mount 
> filesystems, etc, and if devtmpfs is in the kernel and it automounts, 
> even less to deal with regarding /dev.  A minimal boot system doesn't 
> require much, not even network scripts cause the kernel can use ip=  
> and use ip auto level configuration for dhcp or static. But wireless 
> can be a bit different. But networking is out of the scope for a boot 
> system.
agreed, perhaps the current boot scripts can be streamlined further
>
> It's basically overkill and not required.  Another idea is to create a 
> menu system like busybox, but for building an init.c to boot the 
> system with then build it statically and use it in /sbin/init.  But 
> that's a bit cumbersome to do.
>
> I think we need to look more closely at your messages a while back in 
> two parts for boot method. I sent a message earlier about getting that 
> going now.
>
> I start a new job in a week or so, but I still have time to work 
> heavily on some things.
good luck with that
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington
>
martin