Early user space

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Early user space is used on newer versions of the Linux kernel to replace as many functions as possible that would have originally been done in the kernel during the start-up process. Typical uses of early user space are to detect what device drivers are needed to load the main user space file system and load them from a temporary filesystem.

[edit] See also

• Klibc - a library for making tiny programs and utilities that help the user space boot process along
• initrd