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On 03/13/2014 02:00 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> At some point the majority of my nfsroot test image were OpenSUSE 9.
> It was the last opensuse system that booted fast without udev or initrd :-)
> 
> I have mostly retired them by now, but still occasional usage.
> 
> So that why i would prefer to not cripple it.
> 

It is already crippled in the sense that you can't boot without
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO... so in that sense nothing has really changed.

	-hpa