linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][Patch] Allow not mounting a root fs

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Message-ID: <469E9918.8040907@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:50:00 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] Allow not mounting a root fs

Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity, do you know which setup?  I know that it won't actually swap 
> anything out yet because no swap is mounted, but I thought that mounting 
> tmpfs and doing a swapon afterwards was ok...
> 

Nope, I just know that the "obvious" way to do it crashes the kernel
horribly.  It looks based on the patchsets that have flown about
recently as it's mostly a matter of initializing the icache.

	-hpa
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