Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2014-12-28 14:38:56)
> Oh right.  Guile 2.0 relies on the availability of a file system to load
> its modules from.  I wonder if we could make some sort of an initrd or
> multiboot module that would contain those files?

We could, but we'd rather avoid using an initrd.  And if we must use
an initrd, I'd rather set it up using my bootshell, so that wouldn't
even help here.

> With Guile 2.2 we may be able to lump all the modules together in a big
> ELF image, but that’s not for now.

That sounds good.  I'll just use TinySCHEME for now, but I wouldn't
mind using Guile of course :)

Justus