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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