diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index d7d0af35431b..45cc1cc48996 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -791,6 +791,7 @@ F:	configs/imx8mn_bsh_smm_s2_defconfig
 F:	configs/imx8mn_bsh_smm_s2_pro_defconfig
 F:	configs/stm32f769_disco_sd_defconfig
 F:	package/sscep/
+F:	package/tinyinit/
 F:	package/uuu/
 
 N:	Dario Binacchi <dariobin@libero.it>
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 317f859684fe..ddf378b13e01 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -2869,6 +2869,7 @@ menu "System tools"
 	source "package/tar/Config.in"
 	source "package/tealdeer/Config.in"
 	source "package/thermald/Config.in"
+	source "package/tinyinit/Config.in"
 	source "package/tpm-tools/Config.in"
 	source "package/tpm2-abrmd/Config.in"
 	source "package/tpm2-tools/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/tinyinit/Config.in b/package/tinyinit/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2ceb8e191e23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/tinyinit/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_TINYINIT
+	bool "tinyinit"
+	depends on BR2_INIT_NONE
+	help
+	  A Linux tiny initialization script suitable for resource
+	  limited systems, which can be used as an alternative to the
+	  one provided by Busybox.
+
+comment "tinyinit needs BR2_INIT_NONE, i. e. no init system installed"
+	depends on !BR2_INIT_NONE
diff --git a/package/tinyinit/init b/package/tinyinit/init
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fbcb481010c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/tinyinit/init
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This script replaces the default busybox init process to avoid having that
+# process staying alive and sleeping in the background, (uselessly) consuming
+# precious memory.
+
+# Mount procfs and sysfs
+/bin/mount -t proc proc /proc
+/bin/mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
+
+# When the kernel is directly booted, devtmpfs is not automatically mounted.
+# Manually mount it if needed.
+devmnt=$(mount | grep -c devtmpfs)
+if [ "${devmnt}" -eq 0 ]; then
+    /bin/mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
+fi
+
+# Use the /dev/console device node from devtmpfs if possible to not
+# confuse glibc's ttyname_r().
+# This may fail (E.G. booted with console=), and errors from exec will
+# terminate the shell, so use a subshell for the test
+if (exec 0</dev/console) 2>/dev/null; then
+    exec 0</dev/console
+    exec 1>/dev/console
+    exec 2>/dev/console
+fi
+
+# Clear memory to reduce page fragmentation
+echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
+
+# Finally, let's start an interactive shell
+exec /bin/sh
diff --git a/package/tinyinit/tinyinit.mk b/package/tinyinit/tinyinit.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c7bb144dee68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/tinyinit/tinyinit.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# tinyinit
+#
+################################################################################
+
+define TINYINIT_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(INSTALL) -m 0755 -D $(TINYINIT_PKGDIR)/init $(TARGET_DIR)/sbin/init
+	(cd $(TARGET_DIR); ln -sf /sbin/init init)
+endef
+
+$(eval $(generic-package))