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
