Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> And in what context would you find yourself trying to run a Debian init
> system in such an environment?
Often mainline Linux doesn't support particular embedded/mobile
systems (especially ARM/MIPS) or has a bug that isn't present in the
vendor version of Linux.
Here is an example from debian-arm recently where Debian userspace
requirements blocked part of an investigation of a mainline Linux
kernel bug:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2017/12/msg00013.html
Pretty much any ARM mobile device that ships with Android only has the
possibility of running Debian in a chroot.
https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
Another example is one of my ADSL modems, which can run a Debian
userspace in a chroot under the vendor version of Linux but is never
going to run Linux mainline. In addition, Debian bumped the MIPS
baseline for some reason so it can't run anything later than Debian
jessie anyway.
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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