Busybox overview

Components lost with the Jethro merge

• nice
  Jed: put it back, we may want to set process niceness
• setfont
  Jed: put it back, console mode may work better with it
• showkey
  Jed: leave it out, we already have one
• init
  Jed: leave it out!! we use sysvinit
• freeramdisk
  Jed: put it back, just in case
• fbsplash
  Jed: put it back, we may be using it
• wget
  Jed: leave it out, we already have one
• minix-related components
  Jed: leave them out...
• handling of various kernel module files
  Jed: put it back
• kernel module tainting detection
  Jed: put it back
• % tar
• % df
• % head
• % mv
• % rmdir
• % sleep
• % run-parts
• % addgroup
• % delgroup
• % fdisk
• % ifconfig
• % pidof
  
• % xargs

In bold: what's coming back

%: The program got carried over, but some of its options didn't.

Jed: put them back, they can't be that heavy and might be useful

Components added by the Jethro merge

• vi
  Jed: remove it, we already have one
• mesg
  Jed: remove it, seems useless and maybe even dangerous
• passwd
  Jed: remove it, dom0 has one and I don't see why initramfs would use that
• filesystem implementations for mount
  Jed: that's the mistery one, how did mount work before without filesystems?... Let's keep that.

In bold: what to remove

Components that where there all along but should be removed (non-exhaustive...)

• login
  Jed: we already have an implementation of login
• lsmod
  Jed: we already have one
• modprobe
  Jed: we already have one
• less
  Jed: we already have one
• su