The klibc distribution contains some of the necessary software to make
early userspace useful. The klibc distribution is currently
-maintained separately from the kernel, but this may change early in
-the 2.7 era (it missed the boat for 2.5).
+maintained separately from the kernel.
You can obtain somewhat infrequent snapshots of klibc from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/