The way we want to use the INITBSS segment - and especially the fact that it won't have the type bss on all ROM based targets - means that the name INITBSS is misleading. After all INIT is the best name from my perspective as it serves several purposes and therefore needs a rather generic name.
Unfortunately this means that the current INIT segment needs to be renamed too. Looking for a short (ideally 4 letter) name I came up with ONCE as it contains all code (and data) accessed only once during initialization.
The driver kernels all require IRQ handling even if the actual drivers don't make use of it. So in order to successfully link a NES program using the joystick and/or TGI driver there has to be at least a "dummy" IRQ backend.