Custom initrd using busybox

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Sun Nov 5 11:11:15 PST 2006


On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:55:15PM -0600, Jason Schoon wrote:
>On 11/5/06, Jason Schoon <floydpink at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> resp. root=0100 which wastes less memory ;)
>>>
>>> btw, is there a way to flush all or some of these convenience vars out
>>> of
>>> the kernel-mem perhaps if CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y ? Didn't look yet, i admit..
>>>
>
>                                                        I have never seen a
>scenario (CONFIG_EMBEDDED or otherwise) where the full parameters were not
>available via /proc/cmdline.  I'm guessing that means there isn't currently
>a way to get them out of memory.
>
>If anything, the linux-tiny guys might have a config option to do that.

Yeah, thought so too. Sounds like __user_init along with something like
sysctl (or better, putting it into a /del_usermem fops.flush or the
like). hm..


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