From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <681ab57d949099572c6f4f37c3844040@hamnavoe.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:35:17 +0000 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] these are release of 9front? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 076c6b5e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > on rasperry pi, can't one just run usbd & usb/* as regular programs, > since usb is not required to boot? Don't forget you need usb for keyboard and ethernet, which often come into play during the boot process. Actually the pi is a special case because the fat partition on the SD card is guaranteed to be there (for the GPU to boot from). We could have just dossrv in /boot and load everything else from SD. But that's starting to look too much like initrd ... /boot is simple, and RAM is cheap, even on the pi.