linux-kernel - Re: sleep before boot panic

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Message-ID: <47850C89.2040805@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:03:53 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
>> Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would 
>> have been done exclusively in userspace...
> 
> What's the status of kinit, btw?
> 							Pavel

It's bitrotted a bit since it was first rejected.  It wouldn't take too 
much work to bring it back up to speed, however.  klibc, and some of the 
kinit components, are used for the initramfs in Debian.

	-hpa
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