Re: Plan needed for switching m68k to 32-bit alignment

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 7:07 PM Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/24 2:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >>>>>> SysVInit uses a huge set of bash scripts where every action involves
> spawning
> >>> a new shell while systemd does all of that in C. Compiled C code is definitely
> >>> faster on an m68k machine than hundreds of shell scripts.
> >>
> >> Yes, compiled C code is faster than an equivalent script, but scripts
> >> are much easier (for some of us) to edit and turn on and off than
> >> systemd components.
> >
> > systemctl disable foo.service is too hard?
>
> Yes, it's too hard. And if I want to change something in foo.service
> instead of disabling it, I'm sure there's a way to do that in systemd as
> well, but using vi (or nano) to edit the equivalent sysvinit script is
> easier for some of us. Also, if fubar.service is completely messed up,
> then I might not be able to boot into the operating system that is
> running systemd in order to use systemctl (especially on a slow system).

That's also my experience: when it fails, in 50% of the cases the
system doesn't boot sufficiently far to use systemctl.

But all of that is irrelevant for an alignment discussion...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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