On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
- The extra modules in the supermin mini-initrd greatly increase
its
size, which also slows things down. qemu fw_cfg DMA should help
here, if we ever manage to get it upstream.
Actually this one is fine too. It turns out the overhead of the extra
modules is modest. I was looking at the init binary which I had
accidentally linked to glibc instead of dietlibc.
So I think this supermin patch is fine, it can go upstream as it is.
Rich.
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