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U-root is a Go-based binutils intended to replace Busybox. All programs and libraries are present in the file system as Go source, and are compiled when run. They can be compiled to a ramdisk, our current usage; or, if preferred, to persistent storage. To update the binaries requires no make steps; one can just rm -rf /bin/* and, the next time a program is run, it is recompiled (in < 1 second).
All programs and Go packages are present in u-root as source. There are 16 binaries comprising the Go toolchain. Further, due to the layout of u-root, it can be used on any Go-supported architecture and it will work. A USB stick containing u-root can be used on ARM, x32, or x64.
Many tools remain to be written; for needed tools we have not yet written, Tinycore Linux .tcz packages will be used in u-root via the provided tcz command. U-root was also designed to fit in a BIOS Flash part.
Tuesday October 14, 2014 12:15pm - 1:05pm CEST
Room 28
